sent 803,905 pounds valued at $123,347 to foreign
countries, which compared with 687,597 pounds valued at $200,180 in the
year before, and 4,183,046 valued at $650,036 to continental United
States, as against 1,885,703 pounds valued at $476,033 in the previous
year.
Porto Rico's crop, as usual, furnished the bulk of the domestic exports
of the United States to foreign countries--29,546,348 pounds valued at
$5,027,741, as against 1920 exports of 31,321,415 pounds valued at
$8,455,908. Shipments from Porto Rico to continental United States
amounted to 211,531 pounds valued at $35,780, as against 418,127 pounds
valued at $118,663 in 1920.
Following are the figures of re-exports of coffee by countries in the
calendar year 1921:
RE-EXPORTS OF COFFEE FROM UNITED STATES, 1921
_Country_ _Pounds_
Belgium 2,717,949
Denmark 4,099,403
France 11,429,952
Germany 3,200,158
Greece 539,933
Netherlands 920,855
Norway 237,155
Sweden 1,935,641
Canada 1,037,628
Mexico 3,236,245
Cuba 2,831,109
Other Countries 4,618,656
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Total 36,804,684
Per capita consumption of coffee in continental United States showed a
slight increase during the calendar year 1921 over that of 1920, the
figure being 12.09 pounds as against 11.70 for the previous year. This
calendar-year figure compares with the fiscal-year figure of 12.21
pounds, indicating that imports during the last half of 1920 were
somewhat heavier than during the last half of 1921.
The various items for the two calendar years 1920 and 1921 are shown as
follows:
1921 1920
_Calendar year_, _Calendar year_,
(_pounds_) (_pounds_)
(a) Total imports
into U.S. 1,340,979,776 1,297,439,310
(b) Imports into
non-contiguous
territory
from foreign
countries 7,410 27
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(c) (a) minus (b) 1,340,972,366 1,297,439,283
(d) Total exports from
U.S. 34,572,967 36,757,443
(e) Exports from
non-contiguous
territory
to foreign
countries 30,363,098 32,028,832
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(f) (d)
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