The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-02-28
AMERICA LEADS The WORLD
As A TOBACCO EXPORTER
This Country Last Year Supplied
Over Forty-0ne Millions
Worth of Weed.
SOME FIGURES OF INTEREST

Washington. Feb 2S.-The United
States leads the world as an exporter
of tobacco. having supplied over Al
million dollars in total of approx
mately $50 million dollars worth of to-
bacco and manufactures which enter
ed international markets last year.
In the expectation of manufactured
tobacco Cuba is at the head of the list
with total OF 13 million dollars, COM
pared with million for the United
Kingdom, Az million for the United
million for Egypt 1la million each for
Germany and Brazil. 1h million for
France, 1 million each for Japan and
Austria Hungary. y OF a million
for Algeria, and one-haif million each
for Italy, Belgium and India. OF the
tobacco imported from the United
States. about III per cent is in the man
ufactured form; and from Cuba about
As per cent; while practically all the
domestic exports of tobacco from the
United Kingdom, Netherlands. Egypt,
Germany France and Austria Hungary
are in the manufactured state. Both
Germany and Japan export practically
all of their tobacco in the form of
cigars and cigarettes.
The tobacco crop of the United
States in 1908 was 71S.O0O,0OO pounds,
valued at $4,000. 900; the value OF do
mestlc manufactures according to the
census of 1905. $331, 100000: the reve-
nue. derived from domestic tobacco in
1908, $4,000, 900; and the total duties
collected on imported tobacco i'm the
fiscal year 1909, s23. .250,000.
The principal countries exporting
tobacco, according to figures compiled
by the bureau OF statistics of the de-
partment OF commerce and labor are:
The United States. s41.000,000; Cuba,
about s31 100000; the Dutch East In
dies. $4,000 900; the United Kingdom,
81 ,000, 900; Brazil, s4,000.000, and Meth
erands. s3,5OO,00O. A second group of
important exporters of tobacco, with
exports averaging less than sS,0oo.oo0
per -annum. includes Egypt $1.T5O. 600;
Austria Hungary and Greece. each
about 2.5Oe, 600: Germany China and
Mexico, each about S1.500000: France
and Algeria. each about 81 ,250,000; ia
pan. $1.200.e00; India and Switzerland.
each about $75O.0OO: Italy, s500,O0O:
and Ceylon. Bulgaria, French Indo Chi
ma, Denmark and Australia. a total of
about s1.000,O0O in amounts ranging
between S200,00O and 100000 each.
Germany and the United States are
the worlds leading markets for tobac-
co. Germany being credited with 35
million and the United States with 80
million dollars worth of imports of
that article. compared with 25 million
dollars worth imported into the Unit
ed Kingdom and 10 million into Aus
tria- Hungary Countries importing
between and 10 million dollars, worth
of tobacco annually include France,
Belgium, Netherlands and Canada.
or the tobacco imported into the
United States in 1909 26 million dollars
worth was raw and 4 million manufac-
tured, Germany importing in 1908 raw
tobacco valued at 30 million and man
ufactured tobacco million; the United
Kingdom. is million raw and million
manufactured Austria Hungary. 3
million raw and 1 million manufac-
tured and India and the Straits Set
Elements practically all in the manu-
factured state. The share of manufac-
tured tobacco in the total tobacco i'm
portations OF Australia. the Philippine
islands, Sweden and Norway varies
from 40 per cent to about so per cent.