SPECIAL REPORTS FOR FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, 1738

Sugar is not sold at or below cost in order to market the surplus
or to drive out competitors. The surplus is exported and sold for
cash to the buyer at the current price.
Small producers of sugar profit by the combination. They can
undersell it when in need of money, as this organization maintains a
steady price all the year around for their product. Thus the small
dealer is satisefid because he can realize his money immediately, while
the combination is able to wait until it sells its sugar at the regular
price, which it can do by maintaining the supply equal to the demand
 in the country. :
Many others sell sugar, and the combination does not control the
sale of the same.

HAITI.

Sepsis {port of Consul John B. Terres, Port au Prince, Haiti, November
There are no manufacturers in Haiti producing goods for export,
and very few for home consumption. The country relies almost
entirely on imports from foreign countries for its supply of manufactured
 goods. The merchants as a rule order their goods through
commission houses, a few direct from the manufacturer.
The exports of the country consist principally of coffee, cocoa,
cotten, hides, goatskins, beeswax, honey, logwood, lignum-vite wood,
hardwoods, etc.
There is no tendency toward progress; nothing done for the improvement
 of the means for the cultivation of the fertile soil; no
well-organized plantations. All the farming is done in a very
primitive manner, and very few of the modern agricultural implements
 are employed. Plows are almost unknown. The country is
capable of producing five times the present output for export, and
consequently the imports would rapidly increase.
The United States would probably receive any increase in trade,
being now the controlling factor, and when the time comes to have
a reduction of the high export duty on coffee the United States
could handle the crop, which formerly was shipped to European
markets, principally France and Germany, where a better price is
obtained fhan in the markets of the United States. Since the European
 war the imports from England, France, and Germany have
been very much reduced, and from the outlook of the present year
they will undergo a still further decline.
The United States controls almost the entire provision trade of
Haiti. France furnishes a few articles, such as cheese and canned
goods. Denmark furnishes table butter, in 1 and 2 pound tins.
All of the cement now imported comes from the United States.
Formerly this trade was in the hands of Germany.
Lumber, coal, carriages, kerosene and lubricating oils, machinery,
automobiles, and bicycles are all imported from the United States.
There has been a steady increase in the imports of hardware,
glassware, dry goods, etc. With peace, so that the people can work
their fields, and with security for the capital invested, there will be a
rapid development of the country.