Show 1 i < II TRADE WITH CUBA il ql Commerce Between United States and b 1l 1 1 Island Subject of Document t p Just Issued r 1 t i TRIBUNE SPECIAL i Washington Nov ZThe trade relations I i rela-tions between the United States and Cuba present and past arcthe subject t of a document just issued by the Department I ir De-partment of Commerce and Labor 1 throuch its bureau oC statistics The i ci United States imports from Cuba have I H1 always exceeded In value the United Ll If States exports to Cuba This fact has V 6 been due not to a lack of appreciation I ti of United States products and merchandise mer-chandise on the part of the Cuban nor I yet to a lack of purchasing power on I their part but rather to thefact that i I Cuba has happened to be the producer j t of two rcut staples of I commerce and p i trade which are and ever have been Inactive V U In-active and almost universal demand In i I the United States namely sugar and 1 tobacco 1C it were not for these staple I the balance of trade between the United g States and Cuba would show a record I g against Cuba instead oC against the 7 I4 United States h The volume of trade between the two l countries and the ratio of imports to i 1 exports hov been subject to many wide fluctuations and the trade has not been i l ns steadily progressive in character as 4 Js usual between nations at pence with i I each other and closeh connected in business bus-iness relations as for example in the i 7 J case of the trade of the United States 1 n with the United Kingdom or with Germany rt l Ger-many I The total trade between the two countries i coun-tries is now in round numbers 51000 II 000 4 I |