The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-06-20
Our 1922 Sugar Exports
Make New "High Record

States in the fiscal year which ends
with this month, the fical year 1922,
Will probably exceed those of any
year in the history of our export
trade. The United States, saws the
Trade Record of The National City
Bank of New York, has enormously
increased its expectation of refined
sugar. This big increase occurred
during the war and was in fact one
OF the consequences of the war which
materially reduced the quantity of
beet sugar produced in Europe and
consequently intensified the demand
for Cuban, Porto Rican and Hawaii
cane sugars, most of which are refined
in the United States. AS a resul,
we have become not only the worlds
largest exporter of refined sugars, bit
also the largest refner of cane sugars.
for practically all of the cane sugar
OF the three islands above mentioned
passes from the hands of the produc
ers In the raw state to the refineries
OF the United States, while the cane
sugar of the other chief can, pro.
ducer, Java, although not "refined" in
a strict sense of the term, is turned
out In condition in which it passes
directly to the consumer, making it
quite apparent that the sugar refin-
cries of the United States handle larg.
er quantities of sugar than those of
any other country of the world.
The total quantity of refined sugar
exported from the United States in
the year Immediately preceding the
war, the fiscal year 1914, was Sc, ,OOO,-
coo pounds, jumping to $40 900, 900 in
1915, 1,630,OO0,OOO in 1916, 1885,
100000 in 1917, little over 1,OOO,-
100000 in 1919, 1,444,OOO,OOO in 1929
5OO,OOO,0OO in 1921, and in the fiscal
year 1922 seems likely to approximate
1,75O,OOO,OOO pounds, or more than in
any earlier year. The value of the
1922 exports of refined sugar will
of course be less than that of some
earlier years, owing to the extremely
low price of sugar at the present
time, but in quantity the distribution
to the world from our refneries will
probably be the biggest ever"
And this distribution of sugar re-
fined in the United States is world
wide, for the distant countries and ISL
ands have come to realize that the
United States Is the one spot in the
world in which they can confidently
expect to obtain refined sugar. Even
in 1920 when our exports of refined
sugar were but little over one-half
those of the current fiscal year the
number Of countries, colonies and
islands to which we sent refined sugar
was S8, ranging downward from Eng
land, France, and other of the Euro
pean countries to Canada, Mexico,
South America, China, Japan, Aus
tralia Africa and the cane sugar pro-
ducing islands of the world, Cuba
Porto Rico, Hawaii, Java, and the
British and French colonies. In the
nine months of the current fiscal year
for which details are available, we
have sent to Great Britain 35O,OOO,-
600 pounds, and the total for the full
year will approximate SOC, 100000; to
France 200,00O,00O pounds with a
prospect of 300,OOO,OO0 for the full
year, and even to Cuba, the worlds
greatest producer of raw sugar, ap.
proximately 100000 pounds, COM
posed doubtless of raw. sugar grown
in that island, sent thence to our re-
fineries and returned in the refined
state for consumption. in the. area
within which it was produced.
Practically all of the refined sugar
which We are exporting and which will
total about 1,750,OOO, 900 pounds in the
fiscal year about to end is of Cuban
production. While we refine practi-
cally all of the cane sugar produced in
Hawaii and Porto Rico, none of their
sugar or that produced within CONT
mental United States is re-exported
after refinement and as a consequence
practically all of this large quantity
of refined sugar which we are now
distributing to the world is the prod
uct of our next-door neighbor, Cuba.
The refining of raw sugar in fac
tories established for that distinct
service is much greater in the United
States than in any other single coun-
try. Practically all Of the beet sugar
produced in the United States is turn
ed out in the finished form by the pro-
ducers, and in Europe where beets
formerly supplied about one-half of
the worlds sugar crop (but now very
much reduced), about one-half of the
beet sugar passes from the hands of
the producers to ,refneries; while in
Java, the one great cane sugar pro-
ducer aside from Cuba, Porto Rico and
Hawaii, a large proportion of the su-
gar now produced while not strictly
refined" is turned out as "white su-
gar" in form in which it passes di-