The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-09-22
OUR SUGAR EXPORTS
BIGGEST IN WORLD
National City Bank Of New York.
Issues Bulletin Giving
Statistics

The United States has suddenly be.
come the world 3 largest exporter of
refined sugar. A compilation by the
Foreign Trade Department Of the Ma.
tional City Bank OF New York shows
that 1.-THE refined sugar exported from
the United States in the fiscal year Just
ended exceeded that exported from
any other country of the world. In
the fiscal year 1916, the second year Of
the war, our exports of refined sugar
were over one and one.half billion
pounds against about one.half billion
in the first year of the war and less
than one.tenth Of q billion in the year
Immediately preceding the war. =
This marked change in status is due
to the fact that the world s greatest
exporters of refined sugar are now, cut
of, from foreign markets. o.. ...rA"..g
Seven Billion Pounds III - sza J, . psi
Germany, Austria Hungary and Rus.
sia have been the world q chief ex.
porteTs Of refined sugar. The exports OF
Germany were in 1913, 2,460, 900 900
pounds; Austria Hungary, 2.369 600. 900,
and Russia about 1,000, 900 pounds.
France in normal year exports about
400,000,000 pounds, but is now import
ing from the United States about as
much as she normally exports, her sug.
ar production having been cut down
more than one.half by the war. Bel
GUM, which normally exported about
10000, 900 pounds, is now exporting
none, and the exports of the Neither
lands, usually about 400 million pounds,
are now below normal.
These six European countries, Ger
many, Austria Hungary, Russia, Bel.
GUM, France and Netherlands, have
been in the past the worlds chief ex-
pofters of refined sugar. The sugar
supplied by them is produced from
beets. Their expectations Of sugar ag-
gregate, under normal conditions, about
1000, DOC, 900 pounds annually.
With the European exports of refined
sugar practically suspended, the sugar
consumers Of the world have been com
PEELED to call upon the United States,
now the only country able TO supply
any considerable quantity of refined
sugar.
Cane and Beets
About one-half of the 10000, 600, 900
pounds of sugar produced in the world
under normal conditions is from cane,
and only a very small proportion OF it
refined in the place of production. Cuba,
which produces about 5000, 900, 900
pounds, sends practically all of her
crop in the unrefned state to the Unit |
ed States, and this is also true of Porto
Rico and Hawaii, which now produce In
combination about 1000, 200, 900 pounds.
Java's product is about, 5000, 900 900 !
pounds, mostly exported in the raw
state, and that of India about 3,OOO,- |
100000 pounds, but none for exporta-
ton.
, This unusual demand upon the Unit
ed States for refined sugar has mater.
tally increased the importance of raw
sugar, the quantity brought into con
United States in the past year |
having been about 7hbillion pounds. !
of which over billions was from, Gu. |
ba, more than a billion from Hawaii |
and nearly billion from Porto Rico.
Domestic Beets
In addition to this, the production
in continental United States was about |
u billion pounds of beet sugar and a
half billion of cane making u grand |
total Of over 100000, 900 pounds re.
fined in the United States, of which !
amount about 1850 900, 900 pounds were
exported against COL ,000, 900 pounds in
19l5, 100000 pounds in 1914 and
100000 pounds in 1918.
A large share of this. expectation
of 1916 went to Great Britain and
France, though smaller quantities were
sent to other European countries and
also to Canada, South America. Asia,
Africa and Oceania. The quantity ex.
ported to Argentina alone in the past
month amounts TO- about 25 900, 200 I,
pounds. The total value of the sugar
exports from the United States in the
fiscal year 1916 was, in round terms,
about so million dollars, and at the
present time is running at the rate of
over 100 million dollars per annufn.