The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-01-12
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IL asPgc duty paid. hut during this pc.
riod duties varied considerably
Since July 1897 the duty on sugar has
been i6s5c per No. for % deg. test.
Since December "a. 1903. all sugars
produced In cuba have paid lsisc per
10. duty on % deg. test. sugar from
the Hawaiian Islands and from Porto
Rico come into the e. $. free OF all
duty
Sugar from Philippine Islands have
Is per cent reduction from the Dingley
rates. 81 deg. test the average grade.
pays 1880. per h., less .022c export
duty paid on shipment from the Phil
ippinos. All other sugars imported into
the IT, S. In 1905 paid 1.6S5c. per H.
duty for 80 deg. test basis, and the
II, same duties will apply for 1906. with
probable exception OF Philippine Is
lands, which may be further reduced.
The crop of Hawaiian Islands for
1906 we estimate at 100000 tons, Porto
Rico at 100000 tons, Philippines at 1885,
900 tons, the domestic crop of cane 300,-
900 tons, the domestic crop of beet 1885,
000 tons. cuba crop 100000 tons. To-
tai supply of free and partially free
sugar 2,590,00O tons.
Estimating the consumption of sugar
for 1906 at 1880 900 tons in the u S. and
10000 tons in the islands, the crop es-
Inmates leave 100000 tons sugar re-
quired from countries paying full du-
ties.
1mportations of beet sugar from
Europe in 1905 at U. S. Four Ports and
New Orleans were 23,715 tons, indicat-
ing a practical freedom of the United
States from need of foreign beet SUI
gar.
The influence of the Cuban Recipro-
city Treaty in 1905 has been to give
the Cuban planters zoe. of the .34c per
| lb. duty allowed, and to give the con-
! sumner lac. of the allowance.
In our last annual review we said
"for the year 1905 the average for Cen
trifugals should be somewhat higher
than In 1904" Results show .304c per
Id. higher in 1905. For the year 1906,
the average for Centrifugals should be
rather lower than for 1905.
Refined Sugar Price Review 1906
Average quotations for Granulated SUI
| gar in 1905, by months, were as fol-
| lows:-January, 5.S2c.; February, g.
| oHoC.' MdICll, O.5Uc.i April, O.SUC., May ,
5675c.; June, 5.4Sc. July, 5000; August
5.07c.; September, Arise; October, A.
Soc; November 4.39c.; December, A.
45c. The highest price was &c. at be-
ginning of February, and the lowest,
4S5c., in November.
| The average of Granulated in 1905
was 5,256c,. against ATTIC. in 1904; A.
GSSc. in 1908, 4.455c. in 1902, 5.O5c. in 1901,
J 5.32c. in 1900 and 4919c. in 1899.
The average difference between raw
and refined in 1906 was .97Sc. per h..
against 1850. per Id. in 19O4-an increase
of .1Sc. per ID.
The higher difference in 1905 was due
largely to the fact that the downward
trend of prices made it necessary for
refiners to manufacture refined sugar
out of higher cost raws while in 1901
the upward trend of prices made the
manufacture out of lower cost raws
as compared with the prices ruling, at
the time. for the refined product. The
average difference for the two years
taken together is .SSSc. per Id. The
average price of GRADUATED for ten
years is 4.S41c. per Id. The average
difference between raw and refined for
ten years is .s45c. per lb.
There have been no new refineries
put in operation in 1905. The refining
capacity now is more than sufficient
to supply the consumption.