The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-05-04
Duty on Sugar and Molasses.

NEW ORDER BY THE SPANISH AUTHORITIES.
Tae order recently issued in Havana and
promulgated by the authorities in Washington
tor the information of our merchants, gives
the following as the new rates OF duties i'm
posed on sugar and molasses exported from
the Island OF Cuba:
Sugars in hogsheads. up to $40 Kilograms
weight, will pay IS As; in boxes, up to ls4
Kilograms, So so; in bags, up to 90 Kilograms,
81 IT, Parcels weighing more than the above
will pay IS cents for each 100 Kilograms
extra, if in hcgsheads, half hogsheads.
tierces or barrels, and 81 25 for each
100 Kilograms extra, if in boxes or bags.
Molasses in hogsheads, up to to 600 Kilograms
will pay 50. and for each 100 Kilograms extra
80 cents These new regulations include the
corresponding war subsidies"
NIessrs Youngs & Co., Of Al South street,
heavy importers of sugar, informed New
York Bulletin reporter yesterday that the for
mer tax on sugar for export duty was So per
hogshead; 50 80 by the box and 81 30 in
bag not exceeding four hundred pounds
nett each The sane firm said that, hereto
fore, they were losers on the receipt OF light
weight hogsheads, and gamers on heavy hogs
heads, and they regarded the new arrange
ment as more equitable, or, to quote their
own words, "a fair DEAL" The trouble for
merly experienced was caused by the frequent
changes made by the Spanish authorities. At
first they received export duty in their own
paper; then they exacted twenty-five, fifty
aud seventy.ive per cent in gold from time to
time, and iatterly required all payments to De
made in gold The authorities made such
frequent changes that the merchants could
not rely upon them.
Messrs. Il. II. Howell & Son, Of Wall street,
were consulted by the reporter as to the effect
of the new order on molasses exports, but
they said there was no change in the rates as
compared with prior regulations. All the
export duties were required to be paid in
gold.
Official returns Of the exports Of Cuba, just
given by the State Department at Washing
ton, show that for. the twelve months, ending
December 81, 1874, there were exported 644,-
100 tons Of sugar, against ia, 600 the previous
year, decrease Of 1851 tons. During the
same period there were exported u.s. 228 tons
Of molasses, decrease compared with 1873
Of II, 1O5 tons. The United States received
sos. 29l tons Of the sugar exported in 1874,
being over IS per cent of the whole
amount exported, and Isl. O2S tons Of molas-
ses, which is over SO per cent of all the mo-
lasses exported from that island last year.
Tie following figures will show through
which ports OF the United States the sugar
and molasses were imported: New York,
iA 2l3 boxes and 2S4, 527 hogsheads of sugar
and %, 800 hogsheads of molasses; Baltimore,
330i6 boxes and Il, 6l3 hogsheads Of sugar
and 27.7SS hogsheads Of molasses; Philadel-
phil II, 1884 boxes and AZ, SS3 hogsheads of
sugar and 33,94s hogsheads Of molasses; Bos-
ton and Providence, 9435 boxes and 53,S61
hogsAeads Of sugar and Is, 100 hogsheads Of
moiasses; all other ports of the United States.
s6.62S boxes and 49,, $50 hogsheads Of sugar
and % 952 hogsheads Of molasses.
Devastation Of Cuba Sugar Estates.
The following is an extrac: from Havana
letter 10 the New York Tribune, urder date
81 April %:
Affairs OF the island are growing every day