Full text: Selling Latin America

EUROPEAN POSSESSIONS 207 
In 1913 the exports were as follows: 
Trinidad and Tobago $26,000,000 
Jamaica and her outlying islands. . 11,000,000 
Barbados 5,000,000 
Leeward Islands 2,800,000 
Windward Islands 2,900,000 
Bahamas 1,300,000 
$49,000,000 
Trinidad, (with Tobago, twenty miles dis 
tant), 1734 square miles in area, is perhaps the 
most important. Of the $26,000,000 it should 
be noted that $11,000,000 was for coal, trans 
shipped and not produced in the country, 
thereby reducing her actual productive power 
in money to $15,000,000. Her chief exports 
were as follows: 
Cocoa $7,000,000 
Sugar 2,000,000 
Asphalt 1,300,000 
Petroleum 400,000 
Cocoanuts 500,000 
in addition to copra, rum and molasses. Of 
these exports the United States took $7,000,- 
000, France $2,500,000, England $2,400,000, 
Canada $875,000, and Germany $675,000.
	        
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