The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1908-11-10
JAPAN WANTS
OUR RAW SUGAR
Representative of Refineries
Here to Secure All
information.

T. sawa, representing the Japan
Sugar Manufacturing Company, is in
Honolulu looking into the sugar mar
ket possibilities with a view to secur-
ing a portion of the raw sugar output
of Hawaii for expectation to Japan,
if possible The company which Mr..
Sawa represents owns four out of the
six sugar refneries in japan, owns a
distillery, where the molasses by
product is converted into alcohol, and
also owns the largest candy factory
in the Empire, where other by-prod-
nets Of the re6neries are worked up
into marketable products. Its capi-
tslization is six million yen.
Mr. Sawa viii spend couple of
months here securing all the data on
sugar possible. He viii then go to
South America, to look into the mar
kets there, and from thence will inves-
tigate the possibilities in the Philip
pine Islands.
In 1906, Japan imported 3,431, ,795
pieuls Of raw sugar, and in 1907 a
total sof 2,962,43 pieuls, the demand
for sugar in Japan having fallen off
to that extent owing to the financial
crisis through which the country was
passing In the future the importa-
tions promise to be much higher. OF
these amounts imported, the Japan
Sugar Manufacturing Company han
died three-fourths in their refneries,
their output being 750 long tons a
day, 208,000 long tons year. The
1907 importations were divided as fol.
lows; Straits Settlements. $50 piculs;
China, S0,6I2; Java, 2,4S9, ,723; Ger
many, 102; Hongkong, 42,371; Philip
pine Islands, 269, ,54S; Holland, 10,034,
and Peru, 1896.
The principal source of supply,
therefore, has been Java, the 1907 i'm
portations from there having been
nearly a million piculs less than in
the preceding year. 1t has been to
Java that the company has been look
ing in the past, but changing eOndi-
ti0ns in the sugar trade in the Orient
are such that from now on it will be
for the japanese refners to
look for raw material elsewhere. Java
is commencing TO produce a white su
gar III the mills there that finds a
ready market unrefned in China, and
the profits in exporting In this shape
to the Chinese market are greater
than supplying the japanese refneries
with raw sugars. On this account,
Mr.. Sawa is out searching for new
source of supply.
81 know that at the present time
the plantations here are under con
tract TO ship their sugars to American
refnerles, said Mr.. Sawa last night, |
: but my object in coming to Hawaii
is to secure data and information that
may lead to promoting a sugar export
trade to Japan in the future. We
want Hawaiian sugar if we can get
ii. 1t may not be feasible to bring
about trade relations right away, but
changing conditions may allow it at
some future date When that time
comes. II il does. our company want
10 be in a position to take advantage
of II. For that reason / will spend |
q couple OF IHoAlHS uCAS pCAoAC e.
on 10 Peru. -
At the present time the japanese |
impose a small import duty on refined /
sugar. but a new tariff win shortly 60 |
INTO effect that VIII protect japanese
refined TO the amount of three and A !
half ven a picul, practically 133 1-3 /
pounds. Raw sugar of Dutch standard 1
10. l5-the grade which is imported /
for refining purposes-pays \ duty Of |
, ven 25 sen per pieul, but there is /
drawback on this after refining OF ! /
zen 95 sen. The refined product OF /
he importer is thus protected TO the /
amount of ven - sen, or nearly
. 90 a hundred pounds.
Mr.. Sawa win visit the Planters
experiment Station this morning and
vili probably meet number Of the
urar men of Hawaii today. He did
,o+ know Yesterday, when making his
,laus 10 visit the station, that the
members Of the Planters Association
would also be there.
IN the statistics of japanese raw
ucar imports supplied by Mr.. Sawa,
ol 1906, il is interesting TO note that
laval furnished three pieuls out of
he total of three and a half million.
IF recent years this one shipment is
laval 5 sole sugar expectation to
apaE.