. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. 14 THE CUBA REVI EW COMMERCIAL MATTERS. Foreign Trade of Cuba—California Wines Seeking the Island's Trade—Returning of Crates—Cuba as a Soap Market—Customs Collections, etc. Matches.—The production of matches trade of Cuba from the standpoint of the in Cuba amounts approximately to forty consumer habitually purchasing wine from thousand gross of boxes (480,000) per retail grocers in case lots or less. He says month. As to the importation of for- that a well-known moderate priced Cali- eign matches, it is distributed in the first fornia wine sells in Cuba
. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. 14 THE CUBA REVI EW COMMERCIAL MATTERS. Foreign Trade of Cuba—California Wines Seeking the Island's Trade—Returning of Crates—Cuba as a Soap Market—Customs Collections, etc. Matches.—The production of matches trade of Cuba from the standpoint of the in Cuba amounts approximately to forty consumer habitually purchasing wine from thousand gross of boxes (480,000) per retail grocers in case lots or less. He says month. As to the importation of for- that a well-known moderate priced Cali- eign matches, it is distributed in the first fornia wine sells in Cuba for 10 cents per half of the year 1906 in this way: bottle more than a European wine of sim- United States 174 Gross ilar character, the dealers claiming the for- Spain 1,250 " mer cannot be sold cheaper, and the latter Italy 6,780 " therefore getting the trade. Assuming that France 16,600 " the California producer made the most fa- The importation of matches into Cuba vorable prices possible, it follows, he is estimated at one million gross of thinks, that the Cuban market is closed to boxes annually, because in the last two California wines and can only obtain a years it has increased considerably. footing by receiving a proper concession It is unnecessary to say that the Unit- in the duty to the new reciprocity treaty. ed States could compete successfully in The Cuban market for light wines is im- this line of exports for Cuba, provided portant, as they are, just as in all Latin- they send wax matches and not wooden American countries, in universal family use matches, which are not acceptable in the and are a staple commodity. Cuban market. "In the present Cuban reciprocity," com- The American manufacturers are ad- ments the Chronicle, "American products vised to take as their model the Italian, receiving advantages in Cuba are in three Spanish or French match, in artistic, schedules, receiving reductions of 20, 25 well decorated boxe
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