The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-03-25
COFFEE IMPORTS.

of coffee imported from foreign coun
tries during the year, as shown b!
figures recently issued by the Depart
nent of Commerce and Labor through
its Bureau of Statistics, was ], 112, 703,
546 pounds, valued at $50, 427, 099. ant
from Porto Rico. 2.391,524 pounds. -ant
from the Hawaiian Islands, 1927, 49,
pounds. The total value of the coffee
from these two izland divisions of the
United States being s515.S52 bringing
the total quantity OF coffee brought into
the country up TO LILY million pounds
and the value TO IS million dollars. Dur
ing the same period (the calendar year
1900 there was exported from the Unit
ed States 64,256,947 pounds of coffee
of foreign production, valued at Sc, 1885,
5e2. so that the consumption of coffee
during the year was approximately l.
053 million pounds, valued at about 81
million dollars.
The figures of the worlds production
of coffee in the coffee year 1904, which
has just reached the Bureau of Stats
tics. show that the coffee exported from
the various producing countries of the
world, and therefore the quantity en-
tering the worlds markets during that
year. was, in round terms, $3.50 mill
tity brought into the United States
alone during the calendar year 1904 1t
may therefore be said, in general terms,
that the United States consumes Drac-
tically one-half OF the coffee entering
the worlds markets, since our importa-
lions of coffee in 1904 amounted to
practically one-half of the coffee ex>
ported by all the coffee-producine
countries of the world. and more than
81 per cent of that importation was re-
tanned in the United States for con-
sumption by her people.
That the United States exceeds by
far any other nation as a consumer
of coffee is apparent from the fact al
ready stated that it consumes practi-
cally one-half the coffee of the wo. Id.
Some figures just received by the Bu,
reau of Statistics give some details,
however, of the consumption by the
principal countries which are of adj
ditional interest, though the latest
period covered in this statement is the
calendar year 1902. This shows for that
year a consumption by the United
States of So, 272, 900 pounds of coffee;
Germany, $50, 10000 pounds; France,
1SS, 100 900 pounds; Austria Hungary
sc, $50. 600 pounds; Holland, S2,5OO,000
pounds; Belgium, 72,6OO,oOO pounds;
Sweden. 57.42O,OOO pounds; Russia, 49,
SOC, 900 pounds; Italy, S5,640,OOO pounds;
and Great Britain, 32,340,000 pounds.
Coffee consumption in the United
States has increased rapidly during re-
cent years. The inportations in the
calendar year 1904, as already indicat-
ed. were LILY million pounds, and were
larger than those of any earlier year,
and the per capita consumption was
also larger than that of any earlier
year. The Bureau of Statistics in its
statements upon this subject shows the
quantity of coffee imported, exported,
and the consumption per capita in each
of the decennial years from 1880 to
1850, and annually from 1850 to 1904
Summarizing this table, it may be said
% in, he
United States was. in 1880, less than
3 pounds per capita; in 1910. pounds
per capita; in 1850, SO pounds per ca
pita; in 1860, 5.s pounds per capita; in
1870. pounds per capita; in 1880, IS
pounds per capita, and in $780, as
pounds per capita.
In 1897 the consumption for the first
time exceeded 10 pounds per capita
the figure being, for that year, 10.1s
pounds per capita: in 1898, 11.6S pounds
per capita; in 1902, 1882 pounds pei
capita, and in 1904, 1854 pounds pei
capita. 1t is proper to add that the
figures for all of the years above men
those of 1904, which are for the cal
endar year ending December 81, 1904
thus bringing the statement down tC
the very latest possible date
The table which follows shows the
quantity of coffee imported into the
United States and the per capita con
sumption at decennial years from 1873
TO 1900, and annually from 1900 to 1904
the figures, as above indicated. being
in all cases those for fiscal years, ex
cept as relates to 1904, which are 70
the calendar year ending December 81
Consumption
Imports OF of coffe
Year coffee. per capita
Pounds Pounds
1880 .-......... 5l4SS.24S 2.9
1910 .... 94996O95 so