Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-09-01
new RECORD SET
IN SUGAR IMPORTS
Receipts for Year Total g.
485,727,637, as Exports
Aggregate 1,458, $50, 026.

Sugar transactions by the United
States with other countries for the ms
cal year ended June 80 surpassed all
previous records, the Department of
same time the per capita consumption
Of sugar in the United States established
a new record Of 500 pounds.
Receipts of sugar from foreign coun-
tries and non-continuous American Ter
ritories aggregated 9,4S5.121.637 pounds
and shipments thereto from the United
States totaled 1,45S.6s0,026 pounds The
total importation of sugar in the hscai
year 1920 comprised cargoes from 40
foreign countries. in addition to receipts
from the Virgin Islands, the Philippines
Hawaii and Porto Rico. AS in the MS
cal year 1919, when the sugar equallza-
ton board stated that large quantities
of sugar were bought in Cuba IN 1873.
by British interests, brought into the
United States for refining and then
shipped abroad similar transactions en-
ter into the statistics for 1870, says
statement by the department
Total imports of cane sugar into the
United States, exclusive of receipts from
Hawaii Porto Rico and the philippines
amounted to 1882 310606 pounds in the
fiscal year 1920, against 5.621,O3l.lSi IN
1919, and 4,944.S1j.410 pounds in 1871
or an increase of 81 per cent over 1913
and of 80 per cent over 1914.
Cuba Chief Source of supply.
Cuba was the chief source of sup
ply in 1920. The imports from that
country of sos, 70S,612 pounds broke
the former high record OF 5.4SS, 'll,oS2
pounds in 1919. Other large increases
in the number of pounds of sugar I'M
ported in 1920 over the previous year
are: Dominican Republic, from 1885,
5s4 in 1919 to 146,63S,S47 in 1920; Cen
trail America, from 11,31S,415 to Co.
1s4,o91: Peru, from 1o,S77.s25 to 10
AvrDo n
countries. from 2o.s4s.450 to 13S. 49,
0I3. The gain in the last mentioned
instance is largely due to receipts OF
1oo,51S,104 pounds from Brazil Mexico
contributed 62.670,943 pounds in 1920.
Other notable imports of sugar DUR
ing the fiscal year just ended include
24S7l325 pounds from Canada, a.
4SI,s13 pounds from Hongkong, 9.124,-
429 pounds from British East Africa
and 35.722,7s7 pounds from European
countries. The cane sugar from Bel
GUM, Netherlands and England in
cludes some items of foreign sugar
refined in the United States. exported
with benefit of drawback, and reIm-
ported with duty collected equal to
the drawback. The greater part of
the remainder from these countries
consists of Java sugar.
The total domestic exports OF l.
444,030,6 65 pounds of sugar from the
United States to foreign countries in
1920 exceed by 32S, 165,504 pounds, or
nearly 80 per cent, the corresponding
figure for 1919.
Average Export Price. . Cents.
The average import price of sugar
has increased from cents per pound
in 1914 to So cents per pound in 1919
and 9 cents per pound in 1920. This
is an increase in 1920 of 20 per cent
over 1919 and of $50 per cent over
1914. The average price per pound of
sugar from Hawaii was 3 cents in
1914. 81 cents in 1919 and 11.3 cents
in 1920, and from Porto Rico 81 cents
in 1914, SIS cents in 1919 and lis cents
in 1920.
The average export price of sugar
was 8 cents per pound in 1920, against
73 cents per pound in 1919 and SO
cents in 1914.
The monthly average price Of 16.1
cents for imported can sugar was
higher in June. 1920. than for any
previous month of the fiscal year.
From Sc cents in June, 1919, it rose to
SIS cents by December and jumped to
10 cents in January and to 12.4 cents
in May Of the current year. The
monthly. average price Of refined
sugar exported from the United States
advanced from IT cents in June, 1919,
to 81 cents for December, dropped to
in March and 11.3 cents in May, and
dropped to 1914 in June of 1920. The
import price of raw sugar corre-
spends with the wholesale price there
of in the country from which it is
shipped. The export price of refined
sugar is the actual cost of the sugar
at the time of expectation in the ports
of the United States from which it is
shipped.