Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-28
i. 5. IMPORTED
S347,674,625
WORTH OF SUGAR
Or This Amount for 1867
Fiscal Year Hawaii Shipped
$62.741,0O0

Tho i.cCl!ts OF sugar into the
United States amounted to 1,iI2,'->.'
400 pounds, valued IT $3+1.G1 1873 in
the fisca! year ended June 81, l9l1,
against 7.b2n.U>I.n6S pounds, valued
at $3oS.HNG.7H; in 1916. the nigh rec
ord year. aud 6.>2@, >2I,lV2 pounds,
valued at $I55.n77.l2T, III 1914. While
the guant!iy received IN lHl1 shows
an increase Of 90 per cent over
1919. the value increased ia per
cent
OF tie total arrivals Of sugar N
1917. 1882. I1,>l4 pounno. valued at
$50 4J.GJ4, came from foreign cOun-
tries: l,l62, 6"5.t56 pounds, valued at
$62,741,I6i from Hawaii, and 971,%71.-
1886 pounds, valued at S53,9S7,767, from
Porto Rico. Of the 1888, 900 .ooo
pounds imported in 1917 from foreign
countries. 1858, O41 ,i9S pounds came
from Cuba, ll4,367,5Ol pounds from
the Dominican Republic, l1N,lO7, 4fH
pounds from South American ccun-
tries, 267, S91, 9Jl pounds from the
Philippine Islands, 2G,406,7'6 pounds
from our recently purchased territory
OF the Virgin Island, formerly Danish
West Indies, 21,885,00 pounds from
Japan. and lesser amounts from other
countries.
increases From Virgin Islands and
Japan
The imports from the Virgin Islam Is
and Japan show remarkable 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 1912-1916 amounted
to 25,912,5 pounds. 100000 pounds
less than the quantity for 1911. In
1916 the imports of sugar from Japan
were 6410 pounds and only 26,4lO
pounds for the five years 19l219l6
against 21,8S5,0O0 pounds in 1917. The
imports of sugar from the Dutch East
Indies, which amounted to 314 Is mil
lion pounds in 1912, fell to 21,S13
pounds in 1917 The imports of beet
sugar for 1917 were only 28,S+7
pounds.
The production OF sugar in the
United States for the fiscal year end
ed June so. 1917, is estimated at q
267 ,251,S40 pounds, of which 621, 799,'
800 pounds we're cane and 1,645,452,
$50 pounds beet sugar. This produc-
ton, with the imports from foreign
and receipts from noncon-
tiguous territories, would make the
sugar available in the markets IF the
United States amount to 9,739,9S0, 146
pounds or this amount 1,24S,840,336
pounds, valued at S77,096,60S, we're
as domestic refined sugar;
5,711,344 pounds, valued at $2S4,S75,
ton in which exported. and the ship |
nents to noncortiguous territories |
to 19,329.532 pounds, valued !
at $1,439,7 41.
Amount Retained in the United States |
Deducting the shipments from the |
receipts and production would show |
J, 466, 099,5 1914 pounds as retained in the |
United States, an average of 81 |
pounds per capita, against 7,960,362,- |
162 pounds, an average Of Is pounds |
DER capita in 1916, and S,793.794,9 2S |
bounds, an average of SO pounds per |
;apita in 1914.
The average price of imported |
sugar in 1914 was POI cents per
pound; in 1915, 80 cents per pound; !
n 1916, 3.S cents per pound; and IN
.917, As cents per pound, an increase
If 112 per cent in three years. The
Iverage price of sugar from Hawaii |
vas s cents in 1914 and "a cents m
.917; from Porto Rico the average
'rice was 81 cents in 1914 and 5.5
,ents in 1917. Refined sugar export
d averaged Sc cents per pound in
9I4 against g. cents in 1917.