Evening star., 1926-05-14
SUGAR IS LIKELY
TO RISE IN PRICE
Cuban Export Curb Pointed
to as Factor to Advance
the Value.
BY j. C. ROYLE.
Special Dispatch 70 The star.

special Otpateh TO The Star
NEW YORK, May 14.-The speed
with which the handsome soda jerker
has to work this Summer will have
much to do with the sum the Amer
lean housewife will pay for sugar.
summer is the heaviest sugar-con.
Stunning season. The amount used has
already been curtailed by the late
spring and cold weather In many sec.
lions OF the country. II is fairly safe
10 say. however. that the price will
ne higher than prevailed last year.
The cause for this, according to
domestic producers. will he largely
artificial. Cuba has definitely pass
ed legislation for restriction OF ex-
ports by 10 per cent. This action
Is along the same lines employed for
the raising of the price Of rubber.
conee and other raw products which
brought such severe opposition from
the American Department Of Com
merce.
Instead Of having around $500 900
tons Of raw sugar to sell this year.
Cuba will have about 4.950,000 tons.
The production Of the Philippines,
Hawaii. Porto Itico. Louisiana and the
sugar beet fields Of the West. which is
counted on to act AS A restraining in.
huence against effort Of Cuban pro.
ducArs 10 advance prices. probably
will be from to 10 per cent less than
last year.
Beet Crop Smaller.
The domestic beet crop for 1929 and
1925. which marketed a. sugar In the
first part OF this year. ran 7 per cent
under the preceding year. The out
turn Of the Philippines, Porto Rico
and Hawaii is estimated at 90 per
cent less than last year. Counting in
the Cuban crop restricted. the asEre.
satA outside the full duty sugars will
probably he 10 per cent less than In
The preceding season.
Sugar consumption is more readily
responsive than nearly any other
toodstuff TO price fluctuations. me
normal gain IN world consumption ~
about per cent above last year.
when prices were low: the Gain shot
ur 10 IL per cent The present sea
son 10 expected 10 show a gain OF
about ! per cent.
United States consumption IN l'Zn
was equivalent to 5.92400n tons OF
raw sugar. A 5 per cent increase
would bring this TO s,22n,ooo tons.
Production OF domestic and duty-tree
beet and cane sugars is expected 10
be about 2.49S, 900 tons. while the
1928 carry.over was 475.000 tons.
Taking this total from estimated re-
ouirements leaves 3.25o,ooo tons 10
obtain from Cuba. The Cuban export
surplus is expected to he about =
$40. 900 tons. leaving 100000 tons
available for export to countries other
than the United States after tune
own requirements are satlsned.
Want Ban Removed.
Last wear Cuba exported l,4lS.oou
.ons to such countries. This would
indicate that with the rut OF ]" per
cent made in Cuban output the hnee
cuban cror has ceased to he factor
in the depressing ~ prices With
reduced production. domestic sugar
producers say they face serious sn
,,stion. The cane has been grown IN
Cuba. Much Of II has been Ercund
The raw sugar Represented by the
legislative restriction Of shipments
still is hanging over the market.
American cane and beet men say II
would re just az easy for Cuba to
remove the han AsNto put II on.
Cuban producers now are asttatin&
At Washington for revision of
the reciprocity treaty TO Sive NOR"
favorable terms TO the island re
public. Hawaiian and Louisiana cane
growers and beet producers say that
should such terms be made absolute
control OF the sugar price situation
might pass into the hands OF the
Cuban producers.
Domestic producers therefore are
taking every possible means Of pre-
venting Cuban sugar from dominating
and Eastern markets.
The Hawaiian Sugar Co. started
shipment of 1000 tons Of refined
sugar today from San Francisco by
wsv Of the Panama Canal TO New
Orleans for Mississippi barge line
tra anAportation 10 Chicago. The
freight rate by this route Is declared
to be 10 cents 4 hundred pounds
less than from the Atlantic sea hoard
TO Chicago ny rail. The Cuban sugar
men have countered by shipping three
shiploads of refined from Philadelphia
10 Chicago through the ST. Lawrence
River, the Welland Canal and the
Great Lakes.