Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-12-06
TROPICAL IMPORTS run
INTO MILLIONS YEARLY
Over One Halt of This Is In
Sugar, Coffee, Fruits and
Foods.

The dependence OF the United states up
on the tropics for certain lines of food
stuffs and manufacturers materials il IL
Illustrated by some figures just compiled
by the statistical division OF the bureau
OF foreign and domestic commerce They
show that the value OF tropical and sub
tropical products which entered contf-
mental United States in the fiscal year
1919 was $50, o0o, 900 against $685., o0o, 200 in
1900. an increase OF l25 per rent i'm q dozen
years.
OF this grand total OF $50. OOo.o O worth OF
tropical and subtropical products brought
into the country, over one-half was food
stuffs. sugar alone amounting In value to
practically $4,000 600: coffee. over 500, oo0,-
600; fruits and nuts, S60.000 900: tea, 81, Co.,
600: cacao and chocolate, SIC. 600, 900; olive
oil, SS,50o.Ooo: spices. S. Co., 900. and rice
nearly 100000. or tho manufacturers
materials imported. India rubber amounts
ed to practically 500. ooo.o 900; raw silk.
100000; tobacco. * $780, 900: fNbers, Ss4.-
1000: cotton. ga. 900. 900: vegetable oils.
39o. 000.0 00: gums, 81, 900, 600, and cork and
manufactures thereof. H,Soo.0oo.
The quantity Of sugar which entered
continental United States IN 1919 was prac.
tical!y 100000 400 pounds against s.sco.oo.-
900 IN 1900: Of India rubber. III, 0Oo, go
pounds. against IS. 1000 in 1900. OF cof-
fee the quantity imported in 1919 10 but
little moro than that imported in 1900
tSe. 900 pounds in 1919, against 7sS, 1900
In 1900: yet tho value Of last years i'm
ports was at tllS,ooo.oo against 81. 100000
in 1900. an increase OF more thar 100 per
cent in value. while the quantity was in.
creased but Is per cent. Another article In
which the increase Is especially striking
10 cocoa of Cacao. of which the imports Ia
1919 were l46,000.O00 pounds. against 43,ooo.-
goo In 1900. having thus more than trebled
In u years. Tea shows but slight growth
In imports as compared with cacao. the
quantity brought into the country having
increased from ss,Ooo.0o0 pounds in 1900 to
1Ol 100000 In the fiscal yea 1912.
Among the manufacturers materials
brought in, rubber shows a large increase
TN Quantity-from $500. 900 pounds i'm 1901
to III, $4,000 in 912-and an even larger
growth in value-from $32, 900, 900 in 1900 to
practically $l0O.000.00O in 1912. Another
striking Increase occurred in cotton. from
100000 pounds in 1900 to l44,0 0O. 600 in 1919.
SILK importations increased from II, 260.O A
pounds In 1900 to 26.5OO. 600 in 1912. and those
Of tobacco from 1850. 900 pounds in 1900 to
81, $780, coo in 1912
These figures. 1t is proper to add, In.
clude the tropical merchandise brought
from the noncontiguous territories of the
United States and forming about 100000.
600 In value, leaving about $3.50, 600, 600 worth
OF the above named total drawn from
foreign countries.
Inc principal contributors of this $780,
100000 worth of tropical and subtronical
merchandise brought into the country are
Brazil, from which the imports last yea
were 1924. 200 in value, almost exclu.
sively tropical products: Cuba. 3l20. O0O. 900:
Mexico, SCI, 600, 900; British India. 35l, 100000;
Straits Settlements. $22,0 o0.O 600: Central
America. sls.ooo.vOo: Egypt, 49, Oo. 600: the
Dutch East Indies, $4,000 600; Colombia.
100000 Venezuela. $11.00 900. and Peru.
$4,000. 00O. From our own islands the val
ue ts, from Hawaii, SIS. 0oO. 900; Porto Rico.
$43.000.Ooo. and the Philippines, $2s, 600, 900.
The tropical countries from which this
merchandise is drawn are not, as a rule.
large purchasers Of our products. Brasil
In the latest year for which statistics are
available, took but 1878 per cent Of her
imports from the United States, although
she sent 1862 per cent of her exports 10
this country. India took but "a per cent
Of her imports from the United states but
sent 66 per cent of her exports to this
country. Egypt took but 80 per cent OF
her Imports from the United States, and
sent 6.6 per cent OF her exports to this
country. The Dutch East Indies took III
per cent of their total imports from the
United States and sent "a per cent of their
exports to this country. Proximity. how
ever, is apparently an important factor in
determining this question. since the per.
centage which merchandise from the
4soees io'"io v the imports OF
Mexico is $40; Of the Central American
states, ranging from 80 to s.; Colombia.
N.2; Venezuela. Is: Haiti, 69.S: Santo
Domingo. eos: Peru. 1917. and Cuba, With
which trade 10 conducted under q reel.
procity agreement, 62.S. OF the merchan-
disc imported into the Philippines. 3s.l per
cent IL from the United States; Of that
entering Hawaii, about 81 per cent 10 from
the United States. and Of that enterina
Porto Rico. about 80 per cent Is from the
United States.
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