Industrial Cuba: Being a Study of Present Commercial and Industrial Conditions, with Suggestions as to the Opportunities Presented in the Island for American Capital, Enterprise, and LabourPorter, Robert P. (Robert Percival)
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Industrial Cuba: Being a Study of Present Commercial and Industrial Conditions, with Suggestions as to the Opportunities Presented in the Island for American Capital, Enterprise, and Labour
Porter, Robert P. (Robert Percival)
Cuba -- Description and travel; Cuba -- Economic conditions
Fruits and nuts $2,347,800
Molasses 1,081,034
Sugar 60,637,631
Wood, unmanufactured 1,071,123
Tobacco, manufactured 2,727,030
Tobacco, not manufactured 8,940,058
Iron ore 641,943
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Total $77,446,619
In the same year the principal exports from the United States to Cuba,
aggregating $15,448,981, were distributed as follows:
Wheat flour $2,821,557
Corn 582,050
Carriages and street cars 316,045
Freight and passenger cars (steam railroad) 271,571
Coal 931,371
Builders' hardware 395,964
Railroad rails 326,654
Saws and tools 243,544
Locomotives 418,776
Stationary engines 130,652
Boilers and engine parts 322,284
Wire 321,120
Manufactures of leather 191,394
Mineral oil 514,808
Hog products 5,401,022
Beans and peas 392,962
Potatoes 554,153
Planks, joists, etc. 1,095,928
Household furniture 217,126
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Total $15,448,981
These tables show the extent of Cuban commerce with but one country, the
United States; and though, naturally and logically, that is the country
with which Cuba must always do the vast bulk of her business, the other
countries of the world have not been shut out; the average annual amount
of exports from the Island to foreign countries other than the United
States fell between $13,000,000 and $15,000,000, and the imports were
upward of $40,000,000, the most of which, of course, was compulsory
commerce with Spain.
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