Show TRADE WITH CUBA the monthly summary of commerce and finance just issued by the department of commerce and labor through its bureau of statistics presents the latest available of our trade with cuba during april 1905 aad for the ten months ending with april 1905 as compared with the corresponding periods of the pro year which it Is been that our trade with cuba both as regards imports and exports is for the present fiscal year the largest on record during the ten months ending with april last exports aiom the united states to cuba were valued at as against during the corresponding sp period of the preceding fiscal 5 oar and during a like period of the fiscal year 1898 exports from the united states to cuba have increased inci eased per cent and imports from cuba have inci eased per cent comparing the ten months figures of the present fiscal year with the corresponding period of the preceding year the exports to cuba during the ten months ending april 30 1905 were valued at a gain of or per cent while imports from cuba have increased per cent comparing the ten mouths figures of the present fiscal apar with the corresponding period of the preceding year the exports to cuba during the ten months ending april 30 1905 were at a gain of or per amt while imports from cuba in the ten month ending april 30 1905 were la value aa in creace of or per cent as compared with a like period 0 tho year i meantime imports into the united states from cuba have also increased rapidly again comparing tho figures ot the present fiscal year with those of 1898 the last ar of spanish con ciol over the island of cuba it is found that imports into the united states aiom cuba during the ten month period under review have increased aiom in to in 1904 and in the present ear ending april 30 thus exports to cuba have increased 22 million dollars and imports from cuba have increased ag million dollars when the ten month period of the pres fiscal year Is compared with a like period of alio fiscal year in the ten months ending with april 1898 imports into the united states from cuba exceeded exports from the united states to cuba but a little more than 4 million dollars in the same period of the present year the excess of cuban imports into the united stales over exports to cuba was 38 million dollars the langei increases noted in the ex arts from the united stales to cuba ire illustrated by an analysis of tho trade by principal articles combar ng the exports during the ten month arlod of the year with the ten months of 1901 increases occur as follows corn tousand bushels over the exports of 1904 to april CO flour nearly 30 thousand barrels coal 67 thousand tons coffee 1 13 1 3 million pounds cotton claths cloths 10 million yards eggs over 12 1 2 million dozen boots and shoes nearly pairs ye nned mineral oil abbat 1 million gal ons bacon 1 12 1 2 million pounds salted or pickled pork 1 million carrl S null 1 lard compounds over 2 pounds boards etc 16 12 1 2 thousand M feet cattle 14 thousand head and rice a marked increase of 33 million pounds over the exports recorded tor the ten month period of 1904 only a few important items show decreases lz crude mineral oil thousand gallons tallow thousand pounds hams thousand pounds and thousand pounds |