The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-29
GREAT INCREASE
IN CUBAN TRADE
Figures Show That the Gem of
the Antilles Is a Profitable
Neighbor for Uncle Sam.
EACH YEAR SHOWS A GAIN
OF EXPORT.
EACH YEAR SHOWS A GAIN
Cspecial to- The HeraId.l

Washington, d. c, Aug. 2S.-That Cuba
is becoming profitable to us as a ward
and neighbOr is shown by a recent report
prepared by the bureau OF statistics of
the department of commerce and labor on
the commerce of the United States and
Cuba during the fiscal year ending June
80 1901
Trade of the United States with Cuba
in the fiscal year just ended aggregated
almost $3.50, 600 goo. The imports from the
island were nearly 500, 600 900 in value and
the exports thereto nearly $50 600, 600. To
De more accurate, the value of the inn
ports from Cuba in the fiscal year ending
June 90 800. was S97. AL $50 and the ex-
ports thereto $40, 905,S74
Exceeded Previous Years.
in both imports and exports the trade
with Cuba in 1857 exceeded that of the
previous year. The largest imports from
ne island in any previous year were
Ilo-e Of lSl5 when they aggregated a
little over $Ss,000,000. The largest exports
10 the island prior to 1907 were those OF
lsJ6, when they aggregated S47, $4,000.
The imports from the island exceed by
ID per cent those of the highest record
year under Spanish rule, 1874, when the
imports from Cuba were valued at sS5.-
$4,000. The exports to the island are
about twice as much as those of the high
est export year under Spanish rule, 1888
when the exports to the island were S2l.
W ,VD Ia value.
hSSi Pi SSihJ treaty
y comparison of the trade with Cuba
ia 1901 with that of the last year prior to
the present reciprocity treaty 1903, gives
some interesting results The reciprocity
u eaty went into effect in December, 1903
and the last fun year Of trade prior 10
that date was the fiscal year ending June
80 1903. A comparison Of the figures OF
that year with those of 1897 shows an In
crease of about 80 per cent in the imports
from the island and of about 125 per cent
IN the exports to the island. During that
same period the increase in imports from
other parts of the world was about 40 per
cent and the increase Of exports to other
parts OF the world about 30 per cent.
Staple Articles of Trade.
On the import side the chief increase
shows in sugar leaf tobacco and bananas.
Sugar shows an increase from S42, 500 900 In
1903 to $40, 900 in 1907: leaf tobacco an
increase from practically SlO,O0S 900 to 3d.
10000. and bananas from a little over
$4,000 to 81, 900 900, while cigars and
cigarettes show but a very slight increase.
On the export side the number of arti-
cles forming the trade with the island is
much larger than those on the import
side but in nearly all cases they show a
marked increase in 1907 over 1903. Flour
shows an increase from little less than
100000 to over 100000; lumber from
less than 8, 900 to s., go, 900; boots and
shoes from a little over $4,000 to over
$4,000 bituminOus coal from 81, 000, 900 to
SEQ 900; corn from 500 600 to 81, SO, 00o;
vegetables from less than $4,000 to ST.
330, coo; cotton cloths from less than $780,
coo to nearly 81, 0O0, 900; lumber from $3.50, 0Ot
TO S2.2S0, Geo; cars and carriages from $500,
900 TO 100000; eggs from S139 600 to over
81 900 600 while in many other articles thS
growth is equally striking.