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having furnished 85,000,000 lb., mostly from Trinidad. 

 Santo Domingo supplied 15,000,000 lb. ; Cuba 2,000,000 

 lb., and Haiti 1,000,000 lb. 



The imports from South America were : Ecuador, 

 16,000,000 lb. ; Brazil, 14,000,000 lb. ; Venezuela, 6,000,000 

 lb., and Dutch Guiana, 4,000,000 lb., with smaller amounts 

 from other countries. There were no direct importations 

 from Africa, their products reaching here vid European 

 countries. 



Portugal supplied 22,000,000 lb., which was entirely 

 the product of St. Thom6 and Principe. Germany sent 

 5,000,000 lb. ; Great Britain, 4,000,000 lb. ; France, 

 1,000,000 lb., and Holland, 1,000,000 lb., all being re- 

 exports of cacao from Africa or America. 



Nearly all the European countries increased their 

 imports in 1909. Those of Germany increased 14,000,000 

 lb. ; of Great Britain, 7,000,000 lb. ; France, nearly 

 4,000,000 lb. ; Holland, 8,000,000 lb. ; Switzerland, nearly 

 2,000,000 lb. ; Spain, which a hundred years ago consumed 

 more cacao than all the rest of Europe, is now far behind 

 in the list of cacao-consuming nations and has made no 

 increase in imports recently. 



The following table gives, in millions of dollars, the 

 average consumption for five-year periods of the leading 

 consuming countries and their percentage of increase : 



Percentage 

 Average, Average, Actual 

 1894-1898 1904-1908 Increase. 

 United States 

 Germany . 

 Great Britain 

 France 

 Holland 

 Spain 

 Switzerland 



In the United States the increase in both quantity 

 and percentage of increase has been greater than in any 

 other country. 



The growing popularity of cacao and its products in 

 the United States is seen in the comparison of its imports 

 with those of coffee and tea. Cacao imports have grown 



