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Table 8.-Principal Commodities in Trade of the United States With Central America-Continued

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2 Figures for 1929 and 1932 have not been adjusted for minor transfers in classifications of later years.

CUBA

Although United States trade with Cuba decreased substantially in 1938 from the relatively high 1937 total, the reduction in imports was somewhat smaller than the corresponding change in our trade with the world. Imports from Cuba decreased 29 percent in value; nevertheless they were 5.4 percent of total imports into the United States, the largest proportion since 1927.

Sugar as usual, the leading commodity in the trade-accounted for nearly three-fourths of the total value of imports from Cuba in 1938. Owing to the lower quota established under provisions of the United States Sugar Act of 1937, the quantity of sugar imported was about 10 percent smaller in 1938 than in 1937, and, with lower prices, the value decreased 26 percent.

Imports of other Cuban products were also smaller in quantity and in value in 1938 than in 1937. Banana production was seriously affected by a prolonged drought on the eastern end of the island.

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Other imports which declined in 1938 included leaf tobacco, coffee, molasses, rum, and ores of various metals. Imports of metal ores from Cuba have advanced and receded in recent years in reaction to changes in business activity in the United States.

Fresh vegetables (lima beans, eggplant, and tomatoes) and manganese were the principal commodities imported from Cuba in larger quantity and value in 1938 than in 1937.

The low price of sugar led to less active business in Cuba during 1938 and a smaller value of imports into the island from all leading countries. The decline in Cuba's purchases of United States merchandise was, however, not so large as that in imports from other countries. Consequently, according to Cuban statistics, the share of the United States in Cuba's total imports rose from 68.6 percent in

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Figure 5.-Trade of the United States with Cuba.

1937 to 70.8 percent in 1938. The share of the United States in Cuba's trade has increased annually since 1934, when the reciprocal trade agreement between the two countries became effective.

Textiles and manufactures, which are usually the principal United States exports to Cuba, rose steadily from the low of the depression period until in 1937 they amounted to $17,162,000, the highest figure since 1929. Exports of nearly all commodities in the group declined in 1938, resulting in a total for the year of $12,570,000. (Cuba ranked second as a market for our cotton fabrics in 1938, the same position as in 1937, when this country was superseded by the Philippine Islands.) Cuba's lowered purchasing power was reflected in the decline in purchases of cotton fabrics from this country as well as in the material decrease shown in imports of rayon manufactures from the record quantity and value of 1937. Although the cotton and rayon manufacturing industries have shown some development in Cuba during the past 5 years and although the demand for raw cotton and rayon yarn has increased, both Cuban production and Cuban imports of these raw materials from the United States remain small in comparison with the large trade in fabrics.

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Exports of vegetable food products from the United States to Cuba reached nearly the same total in 1938 as in 1937, for the decreases in shipments of some commodities were largely counterbalanced by increases in other exports. Exports of machinery, vehicles, metals, nonmetallic minerals, chemicals, wood, and paper to Cuba were smaller in value in 1938 than in 1937, but in each case remained larger in value than in 1936.

Table 9.-Principal Commodities in Trade of the United States With Cuba NOTE. Data for individual export items include only United States products. Import commodities are "general imports" in 1929 and 1932 and "imports for consumption" in 1937 and 1938.

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2 Figures for 1929 and 1932 have not been adjusted for minor transfers in classifications of later years.

WEST INDIES OTHER THAN CUBA

The value of United States exports to Bermuda and the West Indies other than Cuba was reported at $68,732,000 in 1937 and at $75,678,000 in 1938, with the increase occurring primarily in shipments to the Netherlands West Indies. The several islands received the following proportions of total exports to them during 1938: British West Indies, 28 percent; Dominican Republic, 7.5 percent; Netherlands West Indies, 57 percent; French West Indies, 2.7 percent; and Haiti, 4.8 percent. Imports from the entire area decreased from $37,107,000 in 1937 to $34,264,000 in 1938, the respective areas supplying in 1938 the following proportions of the total: British West Indies, 14 percent; Dominican Republic, 17 percent; Netherlands West Indies, 60 percent; French West Indies, less than 1 percent; and Haiti, 9 percent.

British West Indies and Bermuda.-Exports from the United States to the British West Indies and Bermuda as a group totaled $21,736,000 in 1937 and $21,564,000 in 1938. In this trade, machinery and

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vehicles in 1938 were valued at $6,128,000 ($6,381,000 in 1937), which refinery machinery was $2,747,000 ($3,055,000 in 1937); vegetable food products, $2,158,000 ($1,794,000 in 1937); wood and paper, $2,401,000 ($2,409,000 in 1937); metals and manufactures, mainly of iron and steel, $2,039,000 ($2,505,000 in 1937); textiles and manufactures, $2,023,000 ($1,473,000 in 1937); nonmetallic minerals, $1,484,000 ($1,882,000 in 1937); chemicals and related products, $1,493,000 ($1,412,000 in 1937); and all other articles, $3,838,000 ($3,880,000 in 1937).

Imports (for consumption) into the United States from these islands decreased from $7,097,000 in 1937 to $4,742,000 in 1938. Figures of principal commodities in 1938, with 1937 data in parentheses, were as follows: Cocoa, 20,557,000 pounds valued at $1,170,000 (17,844,000 MILLIONS OF DOLLARS (Logarithmic Scale)

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