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Show , CUBANS FOND CF JEWELRY American Dealers Are Advised to Take Advantage of the Situation. Tlie fnited States department of commerce ami mduMry has issued a huiit-iin in which it advise jewelers of tlie rui:cd Slates that Cuba at this nine pro. uiis unusual opportunities opportuni-ties :'yr tlie sale of American jewelry and silverware. This advice Is based on ii port made by Trade Commissioner Commis-sioner S. M. Rosenthal, who spent two years in est bating the jewelry markets mar-kets of South America and the West Indies. Cuban markets have been open to American jewelry manufacturers since ; the beginning of the war, Mr. Rosenthal Rosen-thal points out. because of curtailed , shipments from the usual sources of European supply. Germany has shipped no jewelry to Cuba since 1914 am the jewelry from other European , countries lias been of inferior work- j t .auM'ip. ! Cuba has a population only slightlv I'M get- than New Jersey, but It offers fhie opporiuniiios . to American jew-I jew-I elrv exporters because of its accessi-i accessi-i fcility. wealth, the rate at which it is d'-vcuipinc. the preferential rates of duty on American imports, and the comparatively low cost of selling. "Cubans." said Mr. Rosenthal, "are fastidious dressers. They are fond of jewelry and lavish In their expenditure expendi-ture for it. and their fashions encourage encour-age the wearing of more jewelry than ours. The Cuban market follows European Eu-ropean styles. This is natural, as the prevailing population is of European origin, and jewelry has been mainly supplied from there. American manufacturers man-ufacturers who wish to buihr up a Cuban trade would do well to follow the styles prevailing in the Island. "Cuba is primarily a market for solid gold jewelry. There is a limited lim-ited demand for gold-plated and gold- . filled articles, as well as for goods made of platinum, Ibe latter being sold mostly in the larger cities. |