Arizona republican., 1905-06-19
TRADE WITH CUBA
Exports and Imports Are
 Increasing
Within the Last Ten Months Period There Was a Gain of More Than 40 Per Cent in Exports.

Washington. June 1S.-The month summary of commerce and finance, just , issued by the department of commerce and labor through its bureau of statis- ties, presents the latest available sta : tistics of our trade with Cuba during April 1905, and for the ten months end- 1 ing with April 1905. as compared with | the corresponding periods of the pro ceeding year, from which it is seen that our trade with Cuba, both as regards imports and exports, is for the present i hscal year the largest on record. Dur | ing the ter months ending with April | last. exports from the United States to Cuba. were valued at S3l,919. 52O as against $21,S55,745 during the cores ponding period of the preceding fiscal year and S9,560,920 during like period ] of the fiscal year 1898.
 1 Exports from the United States to
 Cuba have increased 43.3 per cent and imports from Cuba have increased PA per cent, comparing the ten
 months figures of the present fiscal year with the corresponding period of the present fiscal year. The exports to Cuba during the ten months ending April 30, 1905, were valued at $31,S19,- 520, Q gain of $9,463,775, or 43.3 per
 cent, while imports from Cuba in the ten month period ending April 90, 1905,
 were $69441. .259 in value, an increase of $I2.717,S19 or PA per cent as com pared with Q like period of the preced- ing year.
 Meantime imports into the United States from Cuba have also increased rapidly Again. comparing the figures
 4-ss g.F 1898. the last year of Spanish control over the island of Cuba, it is found that
 imports iuto the United States from iCuba during the ten-month period UE- lder review have increased from
 S13. 76O. .366 in 1898 to s56,723,44O in 1904
 and s69, ,441.259 in the present year end ling April 30. Thus exports to Cuba
 have increased 22 million dollars and
 imports from Cuba have increased 56
 million dollars when the ten-month period of the present fiscal year is com
 pared with a like period of the fiscal , year 1898 In the ten months ending with April. 1898, imports into the
 United States from Cuba exceeded ex- ports from the United States to Cuba but little morc than million dollars. in the same period of the present year
 the excess of Cuban imports into the
 United States over exports was 38 mil- lion dollars.
 The large increases noted in the ex-
 ports from the United States to Cuba
 are illustrated by analysis of the trade 7 by principal articles. Comparing the t exports during the ten-month period of . the present year with the corresponding 9 ten months or 1904, increases occur as Q follows Corn. 4O6 thousand bushels over s the exports of 1904 to April 30; flour, tbo-tcand borraIS. 67 ] thousand tors; coffee. 11z million lbs; h cotton cloths, 10 million yards eggs, y over F million dozen ;boots and shoes,
 nearly 300 thousand pairs refined min . eraI oil, about 1 million gallons; bacon, . 15k million pounds salted or picl<led [ pork, over 1 million pounds lard, nearly y million pounds; lard compounds over t million pounds; boards, etc, 161H | thousand M feet cattle, If thousand
 head, and rice, a marked increase of
 33 million pounds over the exports re- } corded for the ten-month period of
 1904 Only a few important items . show decreases, viz. crude mineral oil
 APO thousand gallons ;tallOw, 468 thou
 sand pounds; hams, ITO thousand - pounds: and cheese, 21O thousand u pounds.
 $ The schedule of enumerated articles e of importations from Cuba is not SC s extensive as that of exports and com = prises chiefly sugar, tobacco, fruits, and
 nuts. While the quantity of sugar inn -t ported from Cuba during the ter 6 months of the present year amounted S to 1877 million pounds, it fell about
 46S million pounds short of the imports
 during the corresponding period of the
 preceding year-2,1 145 million pounds
 The value of the sugar shows an in in
 S52,123.21S in 1905 to the date named
 indicating a considerable advance 1T 'r the import price. Last year, for the } period under review, the import price J. was but 1.9 cents per pound, as agains S 3.1 cents durinP the present year Lea V tobacco imported from Cuba increased L. from 17,6O2.23 pounds valued a 2 $S,49S,S71, in the ten months of 1904 E to 1S,236,420 pounds, valued at $9,173,- 2 143, in the same months of the present - year cigars, cigarettes, etc, from 517,' u 273 pounds, valued at $2,3S1, ,553, to 657,- VI SS7 pounds, valued at S3,324,S22. Ba-
 nanas decreased from S1.O72,7S2 tC e $S7O,294; iron ore also decreased iron ' $993.29S to $757.912; molasses showed z N decrease of about S5.00O gallons iron
 the total of 12,574,512 gallons imported
 during the ten months of 1904, but the - value increased from $610,323 durins
 the latter period to 669.O39 in the ter
 months of t!.a present year.
 The following table shows the value g of the imports into the United State! y from and of the exports from the it United States to Cuba each fiscal year L. from 1895 to 1905, the months of May it and June, 1905, being estimated:
 t.
 y 1895. ......... ..52, 2,S71.259 12SO7 ,66- ,- 1S96. .4O.O17.7SO 753O. SSt le 1897 ........... ..18,406.S15 S.259,77i m 1898. .15.232.477 9561. .65t