New Britain herald., 1918-10-25
AMERICA LIKES HER
 BREAKFAST COFFEE
Consumes 40 Per Cent. of Worlds Production, 2,5OO,OOO Pounds

] some figures of the worlds coffee 1 production and the share construed | in the United States, recently present. l ed in a lecture before the class in l International Trade X Commercial l Geography in the Educational Depart l ment: of The National City Bank or 1 New ork.
 l The worlds coffee crop, according l to the lecturer, averages about ,. 50 l,- | 900. 900 pounds a year of which the | United States consumes more than l e-third--in fact about 40 per cent. ! The value of the worlds crop at the place of growth is about $500, 0,0OO,- l 900 per annum and the value of the l coffee imported into the United states l averages a little more than $1O0,QCc,- | 900 per annum-has averaged in the 1 last five years about $113.O0O,0oO per ! annum, the fiscal year 1918 having l been $1O3,000, 1000, or slightly below l the normal. The quantity imported ] into the United States is little over 1 one billion pounds, having averaged for the past five years 1,175, 5,000,o0O pounds, per annum though the 1918 figures fell slightly below this nor~
 mai having been 1,144,O00,000 pounds
 The average annual consumption
 
 about 10 pounds for each person,
 though this fluctuates somewhat hav- | ing been in 1913 a little less than | pounds per capita, and in 1917, little more than F pounds per capi- l ta There has been a steady increase, l however, in the average coffee con- sumption, the consumption of 1870 l being stated officially at pounds per capita; 1880, S.S pounds; 1900, 9.S pounds: 1915. 10.5 pounds, while 1917 made the highest record, 12.2 pounds per capita; the 1918 figures showing ] an average of about Il pounds per l capita.
 Brazil is, of course the worlds $ chief coffee producer. supplying in 1 fact nearly three-fourths of the cof- l fee of the world. In the coffee year l 1900-1 Brazil produced 11,2S5, 900 l bags (of 132 pounds each) of the ! world production of 15,070,00O; in
 1911 10,548,000 out of the world l production of 14,524,o00, and in the
 coffee year 1917-18, according to the l best estimates now available BraZlHs l product was 100000 bags out of l a world total of 22,000,000, the 1917 l IS crop both in Brazil and in the
 world at large having been larger | than in any preceding year except in l 19O6-7 when the worlds total was ! 23,7S6,0O0 bags and that of Brazil 2O,19O,000 bags.
 Quite naturally the United States
 looks to Brazil for her chief supply 1 of coffee though she also takes con- 1 siderable quantities from her other l Latin American neighbors. The quan- 1 tity of coffee imported from Brazil | in the fiscal year 1918 was 744, ,00O,- l 900 pounds. from Central America as | @ whole 166, 100000 pounds, from ! Colombia 112,O00,000 pounds, Ven-
 ezuela 5O,000,0O0 pounds, Mexica 31,- | 00O,0OO pounds and the West Indian l Islands 30,0OO,000 while from the l Dutch East Indies (Java and Suma- i tra,) the quantity was extremely 1 small as compared with that of any
 of the Latin American countries, hav-
 ing been in 1918 but 4,68S, 900 pounds
 and in 1917, the year of our largest
 importation of coffee, 4,O21, 900 l pounds.
 The average import price per pound of coffee from the Dutch East | Indies is, of course, higher than that
 from the Latin American countries,
 averaging about 16 cents per pound ] in 1918 against a little over cents , per pound for that coming from 1 Brazil, and about 10 cents per pound
 for that from Central America The l average import price of all coffee inn 1 ported into the United States in 1900 l was 6.7 cents per pound, 1910 "a l cents per pound, 1912 13.3 cents, l dropping again to 9.6 cents per pound 1 in 1915; 10.1 cents per pound in 1917,
 and 9.1 cents in the fiscal year 1918. ! The above figures of import prices of 1 coffee are in all cases the prices of 1 the coffee in the country from which | exported to the United States, and 1 therefore do not include cost of trans 1 portation and the charges of import | ters and dealers will be appar
 ent from a mental comparison of the l above average import prices com
 pared with those paid by the average l consumer.
 l The stated value of the imports of 1 the fiscal year 1918 was, for that 1 coming from Brazil 0,889, ,000, from | Central America $16,433,000. and 1 from the Dutch East Indies $739, ,63S.
 The United States is entirely de- l pendent upon other countries for cof-
 fee except that supplied by her own
 islands, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the 1 Philippines The quantity of coffee
 sent from Porto Rico to the United
 States in the fiscal year 1918 was ! 256,G97 pounds valued at $39,O64, or ] an average of about 15 cents per ! pound against the average price of ! about cents for that brought from
 foreign countries. Our own con
 sumption of Porto Rican coffee, how
 over. is but a comparatively small i part of her product, since she sent to i foreign countries in 1918 about 4O.- i OO0.000 pounds, most of it going to ] Spain and France where Porto Rican
 coffee has always been popular. We
 brought also in 1918 about 2,000,000
 pounds of coffee from the Hawaiian