Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-28
Goods Shipped to Cuba, Porto Rico
and the Philippines.
REPORT TO BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE
Catalan Manufactures VIII Not
Readily Surrender Their Markets.
CLASS OF ARTICLES EXPORTED

Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines af-
forded a market for over $4,000, 600 worth
Of Spanish goods per annum. according to a
statement of the British consul at BARGE
Iona, just received by the treasury bureau
of statistics. About three-fourths of this
amount in manufactured goods. and
considerably more than one-half of this
market was that Of Cuba alone. According
to the statement which Consul Roberts
sends to the British foreign Office. dated
June IS 1899, the exports of Spain to Cuba
in 1896 amounted to 134. 461 .675 pesetas: to
Porto Rico, "a 660, 500 pesetas, and to the
Philippines, 3s.357. 75T, making a total of
2l0, ,4s0,2 pesetas; and. accepting the value
of the peseta at ~ cents, this makes a
total of s42,G26o4S
Kinds of Articles Sent.
OF the 134, ,+G1. .G75 pesetas' value of goods
exported to Cuba in 1886 So 652 oa3 pesetas.
according to Consul Roberts. consisted of
manufactured goods, 80 So $50 provisions
and 959,U26 of raw materials.
OF the 37,660so9 pesetas' value Of ,pods
exported from Spain to Porto Rico I'M 1S96
the value Of 29, 9,lu1,977 pesetas was manu-
factured goods, S,40l.J0l provisions and
15l321 pesetas raw materials.
To the Philippines of the %S.357.757 pese-
tas value Of goods exported from Spain. the
value OF 3i,2j0,S:'2 pesetas manufac-
tured goods, 4.07o.557 provisions and 3G 30S
raw materials. Totalizing the three colo
nies, Consul Roberts finds that of the 21O.-
4s0,2n pesetas' value of goods exported
from Spain to Cuba, Porto Rico and the
Philippines in 1896 the value of l4GOlo gf2
pesetas was manufactured goods, g. - G24
provisions and ,l46,G ,G55 pesetas raw ma
terials.
For Freight ard Passengers.
To this market for S42 O000OO worth of
Spanish produce, which the three colonies
supplied, Mr. Roberts adds 22.uoO.oO0 pese-
tas, or S4,6o0,0o0, for money paid to the
Spanish steamship companies for the carry
ing trade to and from the colonies.
The imports into Spain from the colonies
he says, amounted in 1895 to 260.S77 tons
from Cuba, 26,VI1 tons from Porto Rico and
4O,9So tons from the Philippines, and COM
putes that the amount paid in freight
amounted in the commerce with Cuba to
1,S2G3lO pesetas; Porto Rico, 1S2, $50, and
the Philippines, 2,254 l75, or a total of TO-
SG2,6l5 pesetas, and says: IF TO this be
added the value of passage money to and
from the colonies, putting il at the low
average of 80 pesetas head, IL shows a
further 13,a0.o0 pesetas per annum, Civ
ing total of 23.000,000 pesetas per annum
paid in freight and passage money to the
steamship companies for the carrying trade
to and from the colonies"
VIII Not Give Up the Markets.
Consul Roberts expresses the opinion that
going to give up the markets of Cuba, Por-
to Rico and the Philippines without a strug-
gle. He also intimates that other NATIONAL
tiles have in the past participated I'm the
sO-caled Spanish trade with these islands
10y locating in Spain and thus getting the
advantage of low tariff rates into the is
lands which was originally given to COM
nlerce originating in Spain. On this sub
ject he says:
In the year 1852 the Spanish customs
tariff m manufactured
considerably increased with the view of
virtually giving monopoly to goods man
ufactured here for expectation to the coll
onieS. This, of course, gave an enormous
impetus TO manufacture in this province,
factories increased largely in number and
the Catalan manufacturers grew rapidly
rich. The only way in which foreigners
who had good clients in the colonies could
meet this competition and retain their mar
kets was by starting factories in the cOun-
try, the goods thus being manufactured in
the peninsula entering the Spanish colonies
on the same terms those of the Spanish
manufacturers, whereas. if shipped from
England or elsewhere, the prohibitive duty
rendered competition impossible; or by
having a resident agent in this city. who,'
purchasing from the Catalan manufactur-
ers, exported the merchandise from here
free of duty"
Classes of Articles Sent From Spain.
The following tables indicate the classes
CT articles exported from Spain to Cuba,
Porto ftlco and the philippines in 1S96 the
year discussed by Consul Roberts, includ-
ing all articles or classes of articles In
which the value exceeded 900 900 pesetas:
Principal exports from Spain to the Phil
inpines in 1896: Cotton fabrics, p, ,47O73l
p setas; paper, and manufactures of paper,
1,511,302; leather and manufactures Of
leather, 1,0i2,'"s.
Principal exports from Spain 10 Porto
Rico IL ieaG: Cotton and manufactures Of
cotton, 12,4j9, 767 pesetas; shoes, $3.50, ,74o;
sandals, 3,G0l,3 rice, 1862, Gil; soap, l.
2aJ,S14; common OIL .202 o75.
Principal exports from Spain to Cuba in
1896: Wheat flour, 20.326 $50 pesetas: cot
ton manufactures, 1S, T21, ,2S7: leather shoes,
IL .2i9 7G0; sandals. 13. 433. 80: firearms. o.
200; wine, T,440.S0 preserved foods.
4,T42. .361; fax, hemp, &c, and manufac-
lures of these. 3,700,os7; common oil. B.
316,21S; soap. 31T6s $40; manufactures Of
wood , 257, $40; wax and stearin, . O95 G2a;
beans, 1S7S,019; onions, garlic and pota-
toes, 1,205, 115; smoking paper, ] $50 2il;
packing paper, l,42J.2S5; rice, .494 $40;
corn, 1,432S13; pressed meat, ! 1.5SI so;
soup pastes (vermicelli, &c.), !, ,435, ,g99: SAT-
from, LII, ,2G0; wooden blankets I.O9g s56
Ordered to Their Repfrnenfx