Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-23
A FEW FACTS ABOUT SUGAR;
PRODUCTION AND IMPORT
Figures That Are Worth the study OF
the Consumer In High
Price Duys

The figures below. taken from the
manufacturers Record Will prove in
tcresting reading matter at time
when the ultimate consumer has moth
Ing else to occupy his mind:
The receipts of sugar Into the United
States amounted to 7,472.72S.9o6 pounds,
valued at $347,674,625, in the fiscal yea,
ended June 80, 1917, against 7,620.OS5.-
o6S pounds valued at s30s. 9s6.7s3. IN
1916 the high-record year. and 6.S22.-
S25,l02 pounds. valued at SI55,O77,126,
In 1914. While the quantity receiver
In 1917 shows an increase Of 91-2 per
cent over 1914 the value Increased lzr
per cent.
or the total arrivals Of sugar in 1917,
5,332,745.S54 pounds, valued at $780,
s45.694. came from foreign countries;
1,l62.605.o56 pounds. valued at S62.-
741.l64. from Hawaii, and 977,3T799s
pounds. valued at S53,9S7.767, from
Porto Rico. OF the five ana one-third
billion pounds imported in 1917 from
foreign countries, 4,66e,oo7.3eS pounoa
came from Cuba. 114,367.sol POUNDS
from the Dominican Republic, l5s,.
loT,46o pounds from South American
countries. 267,S9l.954 pounds from the
Philippine Islands. 26.4o6.776 pounds
from our recently purchased territor,
of the Virgin Islands, formerly Danish
West Indies. 21,SS5,o0o pounds from.
Japan. and lesser amounts from otner
countries.
The imports from the Virgin Islands
and Japan show remarkable 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 tile
five years 1e12-1916 amounted to U.s.
9l2.546 pounds, 100000 pounds less
than the quantity for 1917. In 1910
the imports of sugar from Japan wer.
6.+lo pounds and only 26.4l0 pounds
for the five years l9l2-1916. agains.
21,SS5,ooo pounds In 1917. The I'm.
ports of sugar from the Dutch East In
dies. which amounted to 3141-3 MIL
lion pounds in 1912. fell to 2l,Sl3
pounds in 1917. The imports of beet
sugar for 1917 were only 2S.S4T pounds.
The production of sugar in the United
States for the fiscal year ended June
so. 1917. is estimated at 2.267.25l $40
pounds. Of which 621,7s9,3So pounds
were cane and 1,645,452,4So POUNDS pee,
sugar. This production. with the i'm
ports from foreign countries and re-
ceipts from noncontiguous territories
would make the sugar available in tho
markets of the United States amount to
913s.sSo,I46 pounds. or this amount
l,24S,S40,336 pounds, valued at s77.1s6,-
COS, were exported as domestic refined
sugar; 5,7l1,344 pounds. valued at
s2S4S15. were re-exports of sugar in
the condition in which imported and
the shipments to noncontiguous terri
tories amounted to 19.32S,532 pounds
valued at S1.439.74l
Deducting the shipments from the re-
ceipts and production would show S.
tb6,o9o,5S4 pounds as retained in the
united States, an average of 81 pounds
per capita, against 7,96O,362.762 pounds.
an average of rs pounds per capita in
1916. and S.793,194.92S pounds. an aver
age OF So pounds per capita in 1914
The average price OF imported sugar
In l9l4 was 2.0l cents per pound: in
iSio' a.Z cents per pound; In 1916, SS
cents per pound. and in 1917, AS cents
per pound, an increase of l12 per cent
In three years. The average price a
sugar from Hawaii was cents in 1914
ana o.4 cents In 1917; from Porto Rico
the average price was 81 cents in 1911
and b.5 cents In 1917. Refined supar
exported averaged 3.6 cents per hound
IN 1915 against 6.2 cents In 1917.