The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-18
From the Neso Orleans Pieayune. January 9.
Commerce OF Cuba.


The great interest which is taken in this conn.
try, in all that relates to the condition and Re-!
sources OF the leland Of gives interest to soma
ofncial statements of tie imports and exports for
me year 1871. which We ind in our late files from
Havana. The BaIanza Mrcanfil has ;uat been
published, and though we have not a COPY Of the
document itself at large. we find copious review
OF II In the Dario de Ia Mar no of the 2ad and 23d
ulnmo. This work is similar in character to the
furnished by the Treasury Department at Wash
lngton, in which the whole movement of the com
merce and customs of the country for the year is
minuteiy reported. In the absence of the original,
we avail ourselves of the labors of the Diario to
present some condensed details Of the commerce of
Cuba. & ~ a
The value of the imports into Cubs for the year
1851, reached the sum Of ,430 81, which s
an increase of ,203 over the imports of 1850,
and the largest since 1s47 The following table
shows the annual imports since lS45:
1916. -. $22 625. 399 ~ Is49.. 1926 800 400 90
lS47.... 80. 389,ll9 Is 1885,. 28, $50 227 IS
l84S..... 25,435 sos 81 l85l..... 1881, 43O So
These imports (ofls5l) were brought from for
eign ports, in the following proportions
Spanish $500 ,25s Is Danish 80. S596Ol0 "a
American. s,l4s.077 06 Dutch. 24o,s75 "a
English 7,374,958 25 Italian 49,. 27l4S 90
French. l,73s.S6s rs Sweden and
German l.s52.576 so Norway. 2S,99S 81
Belgian 4l2,2s3 81 Brazilian. 81, 1865 O6
Spanish Taken from ~ /
America. 2,75s,797 so bond 80. o,71a g.
OF this gross amount about three fifths 49,
S99,l96 l9) were imported in Spa nish bottoms and
on all others only l2,4l2,254 a.. This excess in
favor OF Spanish shipping dates from 1882. and is
In some respects the result of our own legislation
retaliating determinations which commenced, in
1882. Since that time American shipping has
been decreasing and the Spanish increasing almost
unlnterruptedly. Before that time, however, Span
ish commerce was harassed by the Colombian and
other South American privateers, and the mer.
chant flag OF Spain was almost driven from the
ocean. In 1889 it began to flourish, and the dis.
examinations were adopted for encoura cement of
native shipping in the colonial ports, against which
our retalating laws have been levelled, with the
effect of materially diminishing all trade in AM
rican bottoms with Cuba. he subject of repeating
these retaliatory Determinations has been urged
upon Congress for several years--was recommends
ed, we believe, in last years report of the Score
tary OF the Treasury, and obtained the sanction of
committee of the Senate, although the bill which
Senator Mallory has in charge for this object did
not get through. The retalatory laws have turned
Spanish bottoms to the ports of Europe to obtain
direct the products and supplies, which, under our
old debenture laws, used to be exported Cuba by
American vessels from the Atlantic States The
Spanish government would not relax it's system of
protection to its own shipping and under thi, sys
tenn OF mutual restriction the Spanish carrying
trade TO the island has grown to be much larger
than ours J n ~ -
The growth of the Spanish carrying trade may
be seen in the following table, of the amount, an
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