The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-10
Trade With cuba 1sso.1eo4.

The exports from the United States to Cuba in the calendar year 1904 exceeded those of any earlier year In the history of our trade with that island, the high est total in any preceding year having been that of 1901, $27 ,0O7, ,024, against $32,- 6l4345 in 1904, an increase in 1904 of 20.s per cent over the previous high record year, 1901. The imports from Cuba in 1904 were less in value than those of the calendar years 1894 and 1oJ2 and Of the fiscal years 1874 and 1873. Summarizing in a single sentence the figures of aur export trade to Cuba in 1904, 1t may be said that it is larger than in any preceding year, and that the increase over 1903 was 3S.9 per cent, while the increase in imports from Cuba in the same year was 3l per cent.
 Good Gains Shown.
 Considering the Cuban figures of imports and exports during the existence of the reciprocity treaty and comparing the same with those of the corresponding period of the preceding year, the bureau of statis- ties publishes table received from of ficial sources In Cuba showing the i'm ports and exports of Cuba by principal countries during the first six months of the calendar years 1903 and 1904 These
 
 and silver as well as merchandise, while those of the United States above dis cussed relate to merchandise only. The table shows that Cuba's total importations from the United States, including gold and silver, in the first six months of 1904 were $15, 416,503, against $13, 673 in the corresponding period of 1yyo. and that her exports to the United States in the first half of 1904 were $53 1O9619. against $36.- 04632S in the corresponding months of 1903.
 The fiures of Cuba's trade with other countries are also given and show In practically all cases a larger percentage of increase in imports from those coun- tries than of imports from the United States. From the United Kingdom, for example, the increase in imports Is 34.5 per cent; from Spain, 23.S per cent; from France ASA per cent, and from Germany 399 per cent; while from the United States the increase Is but 128 per cent Thus in the case of each of the coun- tries named the percentage of increase in imports during the first six months of 1904 was greater than that in imports from the United States. Comparing the imports during the first half of 1904 with those of the corresponding period of 1903, Cuba increased her imports from all countries 22.S per cent, her imports from countries other than the United States alone 12.6 per cent In the first half of 1903 the United States supplied according to these figures, 42 per cent of the total imports of Cuba, and in the corresponding period of 1904 39 per cent
 The exports from Cuba to the United States during the first six months o1 1904 were 53109.6l9, against $S6 t46,32S ir the corresponding months of 19O3 an in. crease of 47.3 per cent. The exports from Cuba to all countries increased from s44120,S12 in the first six months of 19O' to $60, 0S3,2 227 In the corresponding period of 1904, growth of S6.1 per cent, while to countries other than the United States Cuba's exports fell from sS.074,4s4 in the first half of 1903 to s6,923.6OS in the cor responding months of 1904, decrease oi 1A2 per cent.