The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-12-20
SUGAR IMPORTS
ON THE INCREASE
THIS YEAR A RECORD-BREAKER,
Statement of Treasury Bureau Of
Statistics shows Amount Paid
Other Countries for This
staple to BE sfI5,oe0. ooo.

Sugar imports into the United States
in the calendar year 1901 viii exceed those
OF any preceding year by about 5000. 600
pounds, and the cost Will be greater than
any preceding year except 1893. when
prices were unusually high. The total
HmpeTtaUons of sugar in the year about
to end VIII, according to the Treasury
Bureau Of Statistics, aggregate i,t71 000.-
Gee pounds, and the cost about $1I5.GC0. 0G0
The highest record of sugar importations
in any preceding year we're. in quantity,
those of 1899 1893 7l9 .07S pounds: while
in value, the figures Of 1888 made the
highest record. 1923. esq, 21L
The estimate Of the Bureau OF Stats
ties for the calendar year 1896 - based
upon the actual figures CT importa5ions
from foreign counties for ten months
ending with October, % which are added
the actual figures o. sugar shipped from
Hawaii to the United SLatss- To those
are added estimates f0- November and
December, both sr5m foreign countries
and Hawaii, and for tie full year from
Porto Rico; this method OF obtaining the
Hawaiian and Pot.o Riean figures he
ing necessary by rel.Jn of the fact that
commerce with those islands is 10 longer
included in the statistics of the foreign
commerce Of the F=Ditci States
An Increase of Thirty Per Cent
This shows an in .rease Of about - per
cent in the sugar importat;ons into tie
United States in the decade, the fIguI es
for 1891 being $3.50. TS9. 55f pounds aga inst
49,, 900, 900 in 1901, The &ctual increase in
the decade thus being in round terms,
one billion pounds. The enormous GUAM
tiey can perhaps ne better realized wien
it is stated that accepting the average
car load at 10000 pounds, the sugar IN
pOTtatfons OF 1'oI world Dc sufficient TO
load 7S 600 cars
In addition to this enormous figure Of
4. 670. zoe 600 pounds imported, the sugar
production in the United States FOR the
= year is presumably about soc 900 600
pounds, this having been about the annual
average during recent years
Cane Sugar From Tropics
Of this 4500, 100000 pounds of sugar i'm
ported into the United States in 1901.
more than 1900, 600 600. Of fully 50 per
cent, is cane sugar from the tropics The
remainder is chiefly beet sugar chiefly
from Germany and Austria Hungary. IN
the ten months ending with October, the
importaJions of beet sugar amounted TO
about $50 000. 000 pounds, out of total i'm
portaJiOn Of more than 1900. zoe GOO
pounds. or the more thcH 1900, 0Q0. 600
pounds Of cane sugar imported during the
year, about , per cent comes from Cuba
about u per cent from the East Indies.
and the remainder chiefly from the West
indies and Central and South American
countries.
The following table shows the total
sugar importations, quantity, and value,
by calendar years from 1881 70 1861. No
vember and December Of 1901 being esti-
mated
1891. 1858, 7S9. s54 pounds. valued at
sos, 6I3- S54; 1892. 361z- 726 335 pounds. val
ued at sos .2II. 573: 1893. 3.8I0.0 70. I63
pounds. valued at S123, 0S3, 21T; 1894. 1872
960.49T pounds. valued at Slo9, 0S4. s344;
1895. 3,579, 32z, "a pounds. valued at $685.
36.-SzS; 1896. 4I0S 10, 901 pounds, valued
at S96,214 40S; 1897. 4.101. III. 595 pounds.
valued at SS1729, I42; 1888. ;. AZ. z59. 146
pounds. valued at 81, 934G97; 1893, 4.399. =
s49.0sS pounds, valued at Sos. i24. 919;
1900 4094-029 -255 pounds. valued at SI83-
2,49S; 1901 (estimated}. 1870 GOO coo
pounds, valued at SIZE. O00 600.