Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28
i. 5, IMPORTED
S347,674,625
WORTH OF SUGAR
OF This Amount for 1867
Fiscal Year Hawaii Shipped
$62,741,000

The rcc,trts OF sugar into the
United States amounted to ',4'-,'-e'-
9U6 pounds, valued Ut S241.F1+ $50 IN
the fiscal year ended June 80, l3lh
against -.E2n,r\.,."GH pounds. valued
at $&uH. @>f.7n& IN l"l6. the high rec
ord year. and &. \22.N2J,l92 pounds.
valued at $l-:,."15.l2i, IN !>ii. " nile
the quantity received in ~, shows
an increase Of 81. per cent over
1914. the lalue increased III per
cent.
or the total arrivals CT sugar n
1917, 1892, . iI,n"4 pOunds, Valued 81
$230,945, H94. came from foreign coun-
tries; 1862 ,6n5,d16 pounds. valued 1T
62,74l.164. from Hawaii. and 977,31l.-
9y6 pounds. valued at $JG,9SG,I61, from
Porto Rico. OF the ',2i3 100000
pounds imported in 1871 from foreign
countries, 1863. 097,3?S pounds came
from Cuba. 11i,367,30l pounds FROM
the Dominican Republic, l3H.lpIi"'
pounds from South American Cou1-
tries, 2G7,S91,9Jt pounds from the
Philippine Islands, 26,4H6,I16 pounds
from our recently purchased territory
of the Virgin Island. formerly Danish
West Indies. 2l,SS5, 900 pounds from
Japan, and lesser amounts from other
countries.
Increases From Virgin Islands and
Japan
The imports from The Virgin lSlanls
and Japan show remarkaolo increases
when compared with previous wears.
There were no imports OF sugar from
the Virgin Islands in 1916, and the to-
tai imports from these islonds in the
five fiscal years l912-l9l6 amounted
to 25,912,546 pounds. 100000 pounds
less than the quar- tity for 1911. In
1916 the imports CT sugar from Japan
were 64l0 pounds and only 26,4lO
pounds for the five years 19l219l6
against 21,SS5,0OO pounds in 1917. The
imports of sugar from the Dutch East
Indies, which amounted to 3l4 1-3 mil
lion pounds in 1912, fell to 2l,S13
pounds in 1917. The imports of beet
sugar for 1917 were only 28,S47
pounds.
The production of sugar in the
United States for the fiscal year end.
ed June 80, 1917, is estimated at p
267 ,251, $40 pounds, of which 62l,199,,
800 pounds were cane and 1,645, 49,
4S0 pounds beet sugar. This produC-
ton, with the imports from foreign
countries and receipts from noncon-
tiguous territories, would make the
sugar available in the markets If the
United States amount to 9,139.9S0. l6
pounds. or this amount 1,24S,S4O,%36
pounds, valued at $77,096,G06, were
exported as domestic refined sugar;
5,711,344 pounds, valued at S2S4,S71,
were reeXports of sugar in the cOndi-
ton in which exported, and the ship
ments to nOncOntiguOus territories
amounted to 1928, 532 pounds. valued
at S1,4S9,741.
Amount Retained in the United States
Deducting the shipments from the
receipts and production would show
s, 466,099,5 34 pounds as retained in the
United States, an average of 81
pounds per capita, against 1860, 49,
762 pounds, an average of IS pounds
per capita in 1916, and 1913, 1914, 92S
pounds, an average of SO pounds per
capita in 1914.
The average price of imported
sugar in 1914 was 201 cents PER
pound; in 1915, 80 cents per pound;
in 1916, 3.8 cents per pound; and in
1917, 4.5 cents per pound, an increase
of 112 per cent in three years. The
average price of sugar from Hawaii
was cents in 1914 and "a cents IN
1917; from Porto Rico the average
price was 81 cents in 1914 and 5.J
cents in 1917. Refined sugar export
ed averaged SO cents per pound in |
1914 against 81 cents in 1917