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Show I SUGAR IMPORTS FOR 12 MONTHS tt'ashinKton, Aug 6 More sugar as brought Into continental United States In the fiscal year Just ended than In any other yenr In the history of the country, according to the latest lat-est figures of the bureau of foreign .nid domestic commerce department of commerce. The quanlaity of sugar entering from foreign countries ami our own islands in the year ended Juno 30, l?l i, "as G 1-2 billion pounds and exceeded by 500 million pounds tlje figures of the former hlRh-reeord year, lfM2. when the Imports from foreign countries and the Islands were. In round terms, ', billion pound! Of the C 1-2 billion pounds brought In during 1TM3, 4 1-3 billion came from Cuba, 1 billion from Hawaii, three-quarters three-quarters of a billion from Porto Rico, iiearly a quarter .f a billion trom the Philippines, and the remainder chiefly from South America Java, which has In some ycara sent us as much as 1 billion pounds of sugar, sent but 13 million pounds in 1913; while the quantity from Kurope. chiefly beet sugar. was 182 million pounds, against hut A 1 2 million In 1912, but being materially less than In certain earlier years, the total quantit of beet sugar imported in 1901 having been MS.r.sn 078 pounds, and In l S97. 1,865, 567, 49n pounds In value, however, the year's re ceipts of Bugar fell nearly million dollars below those of last year despite des-pite the fact that the quantity receded reced-ed was 5fn million pounds greater The total value of sugar imported from foreign countries during the fg-; cal year 1313 was 104,639,823; and of I (that cominc from Hawaii. $ .1 0, r.i 1 7 J ' from Porto Rico, $26.619.1."$, and from the Philippines. $4,593,199; the latter however, being included In the figures of imports from foreign countries coun-tries The average value per pound of tho sugar imported from foreign countries In the fiscal year 1913 was 2.2 cents, against 2.81 cents in 191?, 2.46 cents in 1911. and 2.6 cents In 1 1910. These figures, which show that the sugar imported In 913 exceeded that of an other year, suggest that the sugar consumption of the Uniled States in 191.1 will be larger than ever before and will, for the first time, exceed B billion pounds The quantity quanti-ty brought from foreign countries is about 4 fl 4 billion pounds, and from Hawaii and Porto Rico nearh 2 billion, bil-lion, while the domestic production now. approximates 2 billion pounds, the figures for 1912 being, of beet sugar su-gar about 1200 million pounds, and of cane sugar 724 million pounds Speaking Speak-ing in very round terms, it may be said that foreign countries supply approximately ap-proximately one-half of the sugar consumed con-sumed in the United States, our own islands alout one-fourth, and our own fields about one-fourth Cuba supplied nine-tenths of thrt from abroad; Ha wail, about one-half of that from our islands; and beets, nearly two-thirds of that produced at home. Sugar from Cuba maUes its hich-est hich-est record in 1913, 4. fill, 744.04:? pounds against '! "u9,G'7,.j96 pounds in the former high record year. 1910, while that from the Dutch Baal Indies In-dies (principally Java) makes its lowest low-est record In many rears, being but 12,769,766 pounds, against 340,396,410 pounds In 1912 916,858,831 pounds in 1909, and 1,162,202,854 pounds in 1900. Figures indicate that the 1 cited States is clearlv at the head of the list of sugar-consuming countries, the figures of the current year suggesting a consumption of more than 8 billion pounds while the latest available figures fig-ures indicate a consumption in India of about t; billion pounds. In Great Britain over 3 3-4 billion. Russia 3 billion, bil-lion, and Germany 2 3-4 billion pounds |