The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-28
SUGAR PRODUCTION
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS

Showing how the consumer is get
ting the hooks thrown into him on
this one food product.
The receipts of sugar into the
United States amounted to 7,472,-
728,906 pounds valued at $347,674,625
in the fiscal year ended June 80,
1917, against 762O,O85,O68 pounds
valued at $3O8,9S6, 793, in 1916, the
high record year, and 6,822,825, 1902
pounds valued at $155,077126 in
1914. While the quantity received
in 1917 shows an increase of9-h%
over 1914, the value increased 124 9o
the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce, Department of Com
merce announces.
Of the total arrivals of sugar in
1917, 5,332,745,854 pounds valued at
$3.50, 945,694 came from foreign coun-
tries, 1,162,065,056 pounds valued at
$ 2,741, 164 from Hawaii and 977,-
377,996 pounds valued at $53,9S7,767
from Porto Rico. Of the 5-1/3 bill
lion pounds imported in 1917 from
foreign countries 4,669,097,39
pounds came from Cuba, 114,367,3O1
pounds from Dominican Republic,
158,107,4 AGO pounds from South Am
erican countries, 267,S91,954 pounds
from the PHILIPPINE Islands, 26,406,-
77G pounds from our recently pur-
chased territory Of the Virgin Is
lands, formerly Danish West Indies,
q, $4,000 pounds from Japan, and
lesser amounts from other countries.
The imports from the Virgin Is
lands and Japan show increases when
compared with previous years. There
were no imports of sugar from the
Virgin Islands in 1916, and the total
imports from these islands in the
five fiscal years 1912-1916 amounted
to 25,912,546 pounds, Y million
pounds less than the quantity for
1917. In 1916 the imports from
Japan were 6,410 pounds, and only
26,410 pounds for the five years
1926, against 21,885,OOO pounds in
1917. The imports of sugar from
the Dutch East Indies, which !
amounted to 340-1/3 million pohnds
in 1912, fell to 21,813 pounds in
1917. The imports of beet sugar for
1917 were only 28,847 pounds.
The production of sugar in the
United States for the fiscal year
nded June30, 1917, is estimatde at
2,267 PSI, $40 pounds, of which 621,-
799,360 pounds were cane and 1885,
452,400 pounds beet sugar. This
production with the imports from
foreign countries and receipts from
noncontiguous territories would make
the sugar available in the markets of
the United States amount to9,739,-
98O,746 pounds. Of this amount
l ,248, 840,336 pounds valued at ST.
O96,6O8 were exported as domestic
refined sugar, 5,711,344 pounds val
ued at $284,875 were re-exports of
sugar in the condition in which i'm
ported, and the shipments to non
territories amounted to
19,329,532 pounds, valued at S1,439,-
TAI. Deducting these shipments from
the receipts and production would
show 8,466,099,534 pounds as retain
ed in the United States, an average
of 78 pounds per capita in 1916, and
8, 1893, 794,928 pounds, an average of
80 pounds per capita in 1914.
The average price of imported
sugar in 1914 was POI cents per
pound; in 1915, 80 cents per pound;
in 1916; 3.S cents per pound; and
in 1917, As cents per pound, an in
crease of 1920 in three years. The
average price of sugar from Hawaii
was cents in 1914 and 5.4 cents
in 1917; from Porto Rico the aver
age price was 81 cents in 1914, and
5.5 cents in 1917. Refined sugar
exported averaged SO cents per
pound in 1914 against SO cents in
1917.