Arizona republican., 1904-05-23
CUBAN TRADE
The Commerce With This Country Under Reciprocity
A REMARKABLE INCREASE

In Both Imports and Exports the Fig
 ures Are Larger Than in any Cor
 responding Period Before Reciproc-
 ity Became Effective.
 Washington, May 22.-Commeree be- tween the United States and Cuba Is already showing mate rial increase un- der the operations of the new recipIo- city treaty. That instrument went mo force on december 27. 1903, and there lore all the commercial transact'o-s between the two countries since Janu- ary l, 1904, reflect the influence of the treaty and furnish a measure Of its ef- fectiveness. Statistics compiled by the department of commerce and lab7r. through its bureau of statistics. ard covering the months of January, Feb ruary and March. 1901, compared with | figures of previous periods. show the | results of Cuban reciprocity thus far.
 The increase of trade between the United States and Cuba during the frst ! three months of the present calendar year, as compared with the cores bonding three months of 1903, is ap- parent both in our imports from Cuba | and in cur exports to Cuba, as will be seen by consulting the following table:
 IMPORTS FROM CUBA.
 Months. 1909. 1894. January ..........$ 2.577, ,o55 : 5.2s7. 40 February .......... 4013.453 T,T1I.7O4 March .............. 5.37S,Os9 1O.2ls.o3j
 Total 6 months) s1l, ,94S. .597 S2s,21T.1sO EXPORTS TO CUBA.
 January ..........s 1,S7O,e19 90 3.6O5 February ........... 1535,97S 2.152. 2.S2S kMarch .............. 1.s04: 4:466 2-Z4s 215
 Total 6 months) $ 5,211, ,O63 $ 6,495.1 .149
 From this table it becomes apparent. in the first place that our trade and commerce with Cuba have greatly in- creased during the three months Of re- ciprocity, as compared with the cores l bonding three months a year ago; in the second place, that the increase per tains both to the imports from and the exports to Cuba, and in the third place, that this increase, both in imports and in exports, has been Progres sive-thaJ is to say that both in imports and in exports the figures are larger for Feb | ruary, 1904 than for January. 1904. and larger for March, 1904. than for Febru- ary, 1901. It is seen that under recipro- city, in three months. our exports to Cuba have increased from S5,211. 63- the figures of a year ago-to $5.4S5,149. or nearly 25 Ter cent; that our imports | from Cuba have increased from S11-- 94S 59- to 3,217 ,1S0, or 95 per cent; and that our total trade with Cuba has in- creased from s17, ,15a. .660 to s29, ,712, ,S2a. or more than 70 per cent.
 It thus appears that although there has been, with one exception. an in crease in all the above periods of the current year. as compared with the cor responding periods of the preceding year, nevertheless in all eases, both as to imports and as to exports, by far the greater portion of the increase has occurred during the three months per | iod embracing January, February and March 19O4-that is to say, the period covered by the new reciprocity treaty The imports from Cuba for the nine months ending March, 1903. amounted to | S39 S92 TIP, while for the nine months ending March, 1904. they amounted ID s45 446, ,796, an increase of about l4 per cent But, as shown in the table, the | increase of the imports from Cuba Tor | the three months ending March, 1901 | (the reciprocity period), as comparei with the three months ending MarCh h. 1903, was nearly 106 per cent. So like wise the increase of the exports to Cuba during the nine months pei d ending March, 1904. as compared win | the same period of the previous year. 1 is seen to have been atout Is per cenl' but in the last three months period IL was nearly 25 per cent, while the m crease of the total trade between tne | two countries was about 10 per cent ul the nine months period. and more than 70 per cent in the three months period.
 Taking up the details of the imrort' and exports. it is found that the bulk of the recent increase in the imports or the United States from Cuba is made up of sugar. The imports of sugar during the nine months ending March. 1eOz amounted to s32, ,925, ,S73 in value. as against s25, ,331 during the me months ending March, 1873. In terms O I ouolity. these two sums represent l,tzS'- | Sae 07O hounds in 1904 and 1.491 40 2cS hounds in 1903. respectively These ng- | ures show that 70 per cent or tnls ih- crease was secured during the three months of January, February. aru March. 19O4-the period of reciproclty- Thus the imports of sugar from Cuol in January, 1904, were s4,7s1,s51; in F'eo- mary. 1904. $e.273,9TS and in March. 1904. $S,259, ,356; making a total for the three months of s1s,S1E,2S5, or about '' per cent of the total for the whole nine months ending March. 19O4T$S2, ,S29's'S- This large recent addition 10 the nm portation of cane sugar. by the Onl'eo States has not been followed py any material variation in the price or su- gar in this country.
 The increase in the values or articleS exported from the United states C,,Iha arc much more divers.fisd than l 1, tIa inn