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Show SUGAR PRODUCTION The receipts of sugar into the United States amounted to 7,472,-728,906 7,472,-728,906 pounds valued at $347,674,-625 $347,674,-625 in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, against 7,620,085,068 pounds valued at $308,986,793 in 1916, the high record year, and 6,822,825,102 pounds valued at $155,077,126 in 1914. While the-quantity received in 1917 shows an increase of 9 per cent over 1914, the- value increased 124 per cent, the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department Depart-ment o Commerce, announces. Of the total arrivals of sugar in 1917, 5,332,745,854 pounds valued at $230,945,694 came from foreign countries, 1,162,605,056 pounds valued val-ued at $62,741,164 from Hawaii and 977,377,996 pounds valued at $53,-987,767 $53,-987,767 from Porto Rico. Of the 5 1-3 billion pounds imported in 1917 from foreign countries 4,669,-097,398 4,669,-097,398 pounds came from Cuba, 114,367,301 pounds from the Dominican Do-minican -Republic, 158,107,460 pounds from South American countries, coun-tries, 267,891,954 pounds from the Philippine Islands, 26,406,776 pounds from our recently purchased territory of the Virgin Islands, formerly for-merly Danish .West Indies, 21,885,-000 21,885,-000 pounds from Japan, and lesser amounts from other countries. The imports from the Virgin Islands Is-lands and Japan show remarkable increases in-creases when compared with previous previ-ous years. There were no imports of sugar from the Virgin Islands in 1916, and the total imports from these islands in the five fiscal years 1912-1916 amounted to' 25, 912, 546 pounds. In 1916 the imports of ' sugar from Japan were 6,410 pounds and only 26,410 pounds for the five years 1912-1916 against 21,885,000 pounds in 1917. The imports of beet sugar for 1917 were only 28,-847 28,-847 pounds. The production of sugar in the United States for the fiscal year ended end-ed June 30, 1917; is estimated at 2,267,251,840 pounds, of which 621,-799,3 621,-799,3 60 pounds were cane and 1,-645,452t480 1,-645,452t480 pounds beet sugar. This production with the imports from foreign countries and receipts from noncontiguous territories would make the sugar available in the markets mar-kets of the United States amount to 9,739,980,746 pounds. The average price of imported sugar in 1914 was 2.01 cents per pound; in 1915, 3.2 cents per pound; in 1916, 3.8 cents per pound,, and in 1917", 4.5 cents per pound, an increase in-crease of 112 per cent in three years. The average price of sugar from Hawaii Ha-waii was 3 cents in 1914 and 5.4 cents in 1917. Refined sugar exported export-ed averaged 3.6 cents per pound in 1914 against 6.2 cents m 1917. |