Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-12-20
IMPORTS Of DRINKS.
Consular Reports Show United
States Largest Coffee
Consumer.
Amount of Cocoa Brought to This
Country Nearly Trebled In Ten
Years-Japan and China Send
Most of the Tea.

Washington.-Imports of cocoa into
the United States IN the year which
ends with December will exceed those
OF any earlier year and approximate
150,000,000 pounds, against 100000
pounds ten years ago. The growth in
the importation Of this article in re-
cent years has been much more rapid
than that of tea or coffee. The guam
tity Of cocoa, or cacao, imported in
1912 is practically three times as great
as in 1902, a decade earlier, while tea
imports show an increase of but 20
per cent, and those of coffee are act
ually less than in 1902, the compari-
sons being for the nine months end
Ing with September of the years
named.
This rapid increase in appropriations
of cocoa has brought the United States
to first rank in the consumption or
that article, the present consumption.
based upon the net imports of the cal
endar year 1911, being 100000
pounds compared with 100000 for
Germany, 60,000,000 for France. and
100000 for the United Kingdom,
out of a world consumption Of ap-
proximately 500,000,000 pounds. OF
the worlds imported coffee the United
States is also the largest consumer
the net imports last year having been
796,000,000 pounds, compared with
404,000,000 for Germany, 24o,00O,OOo
for France, 28,000,000 for the United
Kingdom, and 26,000,000 for Russia
In imports of tea, however, the United
States ranks third, her total imports
Of that article, 100,000,000 pounds, be
ing exceeded by those Of the United
Kingdom, 294,O0O,000 pounds, and
those of Russia, 155 100000 pounds.
Germanys tea imports for consump-
ton in 1911 amounted to but S,0OO.rVo
pounds. and those of France 100000
pounds.
Most of the cocoa imported into the
United States Is produced in the West
Indies, Central and South America.
OF the 131 100000 pounds imported in
the first nine months of 1912, 81, 0Oo,-
900 pounds were from British west
Indies, 2S.000,000 from Santo Domin-
go. 2O,OOO,O00 from Ecuador, and H.
100000 from Brazil while 20,00O,OOo
pounds were credited to Portugal and
100000 pounds to the United King
dom, though, in fact, produced in Ger
tain of their colonies.
Brazil is the chief source of our I'M
ported coffee, having supplied 1885,
100000 pounds out Of total of 651,-
100000 pounds imported in the nine
months ended with September, 1912.
compared with 100000 from Colon
bia 37,50O,00c from Venezuela, ST.
100000 from the Central American
American STAKES, 100000 from Mex
leo and less than 60,000,000 pounds
from all other countries, including AZ
100000 pounds imported from Europe.
Japan usually supplies about one
half of the tea consumed in the United
States, though in the current year the
proportion imported from that coun-
try is somewhat less than one-half.
Of the 67,000,000 pounds of tea i'm
ported in the nine months under re-
view, 100000 pounds were from ia
from the East Indies, and 100000
from the United Kingdom. presumably
the product of certain of her colonies.
The relative increase in impOrta-
tions of cocoa, coffee and tea into the
United States is illustrated by the fol-
lowing compilation of the Statistical
Division oP the Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce. 1t will be seen
that in the period from 1880 to 1911
imports of cocoa increased from o.
100000 to 1S40O0,000 pounds; those of
coffee from 100000 to S00,000,0O0
pounds, and those of tea from 6S,-
600 900 to 104,O00,0OO pounds. Imports
of cocoa are thus twenty times as
much as in 1880, while those of cof-
fee in the same period have about dou-
bIed. and those of tea increased about
90 per cent.