Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-04-18
Imports Of Tea, caeao and Coffee
Especial to The Bulletin.)


Washington. April 1.-THE bureau
81 statistics of the department of COM
n0rce and labor has Just made public
q report which shows that larger i'm
Qorts OF tsa and cacao and smaller i'm
ports OF coffee accompanied the high
prices which characterized the coffee
import trade OF 1911. Present indica-
fions are that the importation of both
tea and cacao in the fiscal year 1911
will be the largest in the history of
the import trade, since the eight
7nonths' record for which the bureau
has figures shows in each case larger
quantities imported than the CORE
spending eight months of the fiscal
year in which they made their re-
spoctive high records. Tea made it's
highest record of importations in the
fiscal year 1909. the total imports for
that year being lis million pounds; but
40 IT, imports of the eight months
en6i0g with February, 1911. are slight
~ in excess of the corresponding
months Of 1903. it seems probable that
the full fiscal year OF 1911 will break
all records In tea importations. Cacao
10 also making this year it's highest
record in importations. the quantity
supported in the eight months ending
with February. 1911. being materially
KroAter than that of the corresponding
M0nfhs Of the prior record of 1902
ne total imports of crude cocoa, or
cacao. including shells, in the fiscal
year 1909 was 1870 million pounds; but
as tine figures for the eight months of
1911 exceed by II L. million pounds
those of the corresponding months of
1903. il may be assumed that the fiscal
year 1911 viii be a record breaker in
imports OF cocoa and cacao az well as
IN The imports of tea.
Meantime. coffee which has shown
q higher average import price in the
fiscal year 1911 than in any other year
since 1891. shows marked decline in
the quantity imported the amount
brought into this country in the eight
months ending with February. 1911.
being but ga million pounds, against
144 million In the corresponding
months of 1909.
To what extent this increase in the
tmportations Of tea and cacao and the
decline in the importations of coffee
are due to the high price OF coffee
cannot be definitely stated. though it
y fact that the import price of cof-
Zee averages much higher in the cur
rent fiscal year than in any previous
year running back more than a de-
cade- The average import price of
Gomez In the eight months of the fiscal
year for which figures are available is
slightly under 10 cents per pound,
against "a cents per pound in the
corresponding months of last year and
Ia cents per pound in the CORE
spending months OF the preceding year
The average import price of coffee
during the present fiscal year ,Ip to
March LIST. s.a7 cents per pound. is
considerably above the annual aver
age In any year since 1897, when the
average import price was Ill cents
per pound.
The marked growth i'm the importa
ZION OF tea into the United States is
matter of comparatively recent devel-
cpment. There were only four years
prior TO 1909 in which the total i'm
ports reached 115 million pounds, and
in the fiscal year of 1911 will probably
exceed that amount. In cocoa or cacao
the growth OF imports has been more
strongly marked than in tea, the total
tmportations of cocoa and cacao in
rluding shells. having grown from is
million pounds in 1890 to 1870 million
pounds In 1909 and it seems probable
that for the fiscal year 1911 the total
Will approximate 40 million pounds.
Tropical America is our chief source
or supply for cocoa, though the i'm
p0rfations include a considerable and
rapidly increasing quantity from Por-
fuEal which is presumably the product
t9seny at least OF her African colo
Ms on ret importotions ara chiefly
from China ands Japan. the quantity
from ia pan being sbotd twice as great
80 that from China