The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-05-11
SUGAR PLAYS BIG
PART IN Business
National City Bank Of New York
nQuotes Figures Of Territorial
Trade For Last Twelvemonth

Facts About sugar-A compilation of
trade OF the United States with its
non-continguous territory made by the
| foreign trade department of the Ma
tional City Bank of New York and is
sued this week, shows that IL now
amounts TO million dollars day
and that receipts Of sugar from
this territory have played a most
| important part in enabling this record
breaking figure TO BIO reached
Tripled In Ten Years
| Continuing, the banks statement
| readss ttW With Porto Rico u amounted
| in 1916 TO Ill million dollars, with
| the Hawaiian Islands, los millions,
with Alaska, 95 millions, and with the
| Philippine Islands 50 millions, making
! Tor the entire hon-contigiIous area 81
million dollars in the calendar year
| 1916. II we add to this the 10 mil
lions of gold brought from the mines
| Of Alaska, the total would be 3ST mil.
lions Ten years ago, ia the fiscal year
1906, II was Just one-third as much as
4 in 1916, OF 1877 million dollars. Twenty
| wears ago, or Just before annexation
| Of the Islands, il was 32 million dol
lars. The total quadFupled in the first
| decade after annexation and trebled in
the second decade.
''of this 81 millions worth of trade
with the non-contiguous territory in
1916, 23S millions was merchandise
coming from them and 1913 millions
was merchandise sold to them. No
/ such record was ever made by the Is
! lands or Alaska in the contributions to
the requirements of the country. Porto
nj IaIla
Z worth of sugar against thirty million
dollars worth last year and twenty one
millions the year before. Hawaii sent
sixty million dollars worth of sugar,
and the Philippine Islands eight mil
lion dollars worth. r@
y srgar Most Important Product
\ tsThe quantity of sugar sent by the
+ three island groups was .2,320, 100000
pounds, or nearly one.half as much as
I. was brought from foreign countries in
that year of the greatest sugar imports
the country has ever known. In fact,
sugar was the most important Of the
products sent TO us by any of our Is;
lands, except in the case Of the Philip
{pines which sent greater value of
, Manila hemp than of sugar. f
%iE'Of the seventy one million dollars
u
wall, sixty million dollars worth was
sugar, and nine million dollars worth
was pineaples OF sixty-seven mill
lions worth sent from Porto Rico,
ifty-one millions was sugar, and ten
millions tobacco OF the thirty four
million dollars worth sent by the
Philippine Islands, eight millions was
sugar, and fourteen millions hemp.
F'The' merchandise sent to these non
contiguous territories was, of course,
manufactures and foodstuffs. Porto
Rico took four million dollars worth
4 of meats, nine million, dollars worth
of breadstuffs, of which rice formed
about one half, five millions of cotton
| goods, three millions of iron and steel,
two millions of fertilizers, million
dollars worth of vegetables, Q million
of Iaineral oils, a million of paper and
manufactures thereof, and another
Q million of lumber, her total takings
. of our products being forty-two mil
5 lion dollars worth against thirtyitwO
a millions last year, " -
Manufactured Articles Exchanged
"Hawaii,s takings of our merehan,
:, disc amounted to thirty-five millions
lagainst twenty nine millions last year
. and included six million dollars worth
I OF iron and steel manufactures, three
: millions Of breadstutfs, two and one
! half millions of mineral oil, and two
millions Of fertilizers. The Philip
!, pines took twenty-five and one-hali
J million dollars worth, Of which five
: millions was cotton goods, one million
breadstuffs, one million ears and ear
; riapes and three millions manufac
I tures of iron and steel Alaska took
: thirty million dollars worth, of which
! seven millions was iron and stee
manufactures, three millions meats
8 two millions manufactures Of tin, on,
!. million breadstuAs, one million ex
Q plosiyes for mining purposes, one ant
! one fourth millions cottons, one anC
! one half millions lumber, and nearly
one million vegetables. ("