The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-10-30
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brought his family here from Oklahoma
and put mis- children to school here.
Hon. Thornwell Haynes, United
States Consul at Rouen, France, has
forwarded to the State Department the
following translation of a French Pres
idential decree regarding French sugar
bounties, it having been issued during
August:
Article /. The bounties, which from
September /, 1902, will be granted on
home or colonial sugar declared for ex-
portation to other countries and French
colonies, not subject to the metropoli-
tan customs tariff, are fixed as follows
Raw sugar i'll powder or small crys-
tails, yielding at least 90 per cent. in
the case of beet-root sugar, or 81 per
cent. for colonial sugars, calculated
before the deduction for waste in re-
filming, per 100 Kilograms of refined sug-
ar, 1.27 francs (24.511 cents per 22046
pounds. Sugars of this category liable
to duty and exported direct by the
manufacturer himself, when they po-
larize at least 1915 per cent. will be
calculated according to their gross
weight as refined sugars without any
deduction whatever.
Raw sugar yielding from 60 to SO per
cent. in the case of beet-root sugar, or
from So to 81 per cent. in the case of
colonial sugars, per 100 kilograms OF
refined sugar, LII francs (21.423 cents).
Candied sugars calculated at their le-
gal coefticient, refined sugars in loaves
,, or pieces, perfectly refined, hard and
dry, per 100 Kilograms (net weight,
LAB francs (27.59s cents).
''Vergeoises'' per 100 Kilograms of re-
| fined sugar, las francs (275ss cents).
Refined sugar in crystals or powder,
yielding at least SO per cent. per 100 Kill
ograms of refined sugar, 1.27 francs
| CASH cents). When the sugars of this
| last category polarize at least 1915 per
cent. they will be considered as pure
refined sugars, and certificates of ex-
portations will be admitted in the dis
charge of the obligations for temporary
admission, for their whole weight with
cut any deduction whatever.
| United States Minister Buck has for
warded to the State Department an ex-
tended report about the trade condi-
tons in Japan. Regarding the impor-
/ taticn of sugar into the island kingdom
| the minister has this to say:
1
| October l. The consequence was the
| importation of an abnormally large
amount Of sugar during the first nine
months of the year, and the figures for
1901 were higher than ever before. The
countries which chiefly benefited there
by were Hongkong, Germany, and Aus
| tria- Hungary. Large quantities of
sugar also came from the Dutch Indies.
1 philfnninaS ond China ~
| Consul Thomas w. Fee at Bombay,
India, has written to the State Depart
nnent about the coffee industry in that
| country, In which he says:
Southern India practically monopo-
| Lies the Indian coffee industry. The
low prices caused by the competition
of the Brazilian coffee (Which repre-
sents three-fourths of the worlds pro-
Guctior) have played havoc with this
trade in recent years, and the average
| production in the last q7inquennium
was under 20500,0 900 pounds, as COM
pared with "a, 100000 pounds in the pre-
ceding five years. This great falling
off in the output is due rather to a di-
minished yield than to any reduction
of acreage, for the extent under coffee
! is practically the same as in 1855, while
the output is less than half.
1.-The coffee producers have seen the
price of their commodity fall for the
last twelve years. In 1890, it was G5
IS. 21Id. ($25.63) per cwt. Q12 pounds),
and in 1900 is touched bottom level with
| 352 rs. ($11.6O.
There is in this country certain
demand for tea-although small-and
the progress of the experiments under
taken at the suggestion of the viceroy
| tends to show that it is capable of ex-
pansion. Indian coffee, en- the other
| hand, has to find it's purchasers entire
| ly abroad, and so long as the foreign
market is dominated by the low-priced
Brazilian product, there is no hope for
the industry.
THE English demand of 100000
pounds is closely followed by that of
! France-11, $50, GOO pounds. The import
ance of this French trade leads planters
| to follow, with no little anxiety, the
| progress of the tariff negotiations. Mr.
| O'Conor, director-general of statistics
to the government of India, says that
| the question is still unsettled, and the
provisional arrangements under which
| the minimum tariff rate was applied
| to it were recently prolonged.
THE quality of Indian coffee is good
SO good that it is appreciated by the
! Arabs and Turks. It is not easy to
! determine how much of the 100000
pounds of Indian coffee shipped to Ara
bia finds its way to Europe and Ameri-
! ca as the finest Mocha.
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