. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW 25 PINE LUMBER FOR EASTERN CUBA LONG LEAF YELLOW PINE. WHITE PINE, SPRUCE AND SOME CYPRUS IN DEMAND—PRICES AND DUTIES Pine lumber is used extensively in and around Santiago for all kinds of construction and is imported exclusively from the United States in large quantities. The principal kinds of pine lumber imported are long-leaf yellow pine, white pine, spruce, and a small amount of c^-press. The price paid for pine lumber depends upon the grade of lumber and the niarket prevailing in the United States at time of shipment. The average price, however, for Cu
. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW 25 PINE LUMBER FOR EASTERN CUBA LONG LEAF YELLOW PINE. WHITE PINE, SPRUCE AND SOME CYPRUS IN DEMAND—PRICES AND DUTIES Pine lumber is used extensively in and around Santiago for all kinds of construction and is imported exclusively from the United States in large quantities. The principal kinds of pine lumber imported are long-leaf yellow pine, white pine, spruce, and a small amount of c^-press. The price paid for pine lumber depends upon the grade of lumber and the niarket prevailing in the United States at time of shipment. The average price, however, for Cuban "merchant- able" may be said to be S>25 per thousand feet, cost, freight and insurance. Cuban merchant- able is a shade poorer grade than that customarilj^ denominated merchantable in the United States for export to Central and South America. Common pine wood, not dressed, is admitted free of duty; planed or dove-tailed for boxes or flooring, imported from the United States, is dutiable at the rate of $ per 100 kilos, equal to about .$0,725 per 1,000 pounds. Besides the duties prescribed by the customs tariff, there is levied, under the provisions of the port improvement law, an additional charge on merchandise which is the product of the soil or industry of the United States of $ per metric ton. Local prices for lumber for dehvery to dealers pays $ per thousand for wharfage, and where the vessel anchors in the bay there is an additional charge of .$ per thousand for Kghterage. Lumber imported at Santiago de Cuba, intended for deliverj' at interior points on the line of the Cuba Railroad, pays $2 per carload, which includes wharfage at theyocks of the railroad company. The cost of freight and insurance at the present time on lumber imported in saihng vessels at north-coast ports is $6 per thousand, and at south-coast ports $7 per thousand; imported in steamships, north-coast ports $8, and south-coast ports $9 per thousand. There is no fixed ra
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