2io SELLING LATIN AMERICA
Islands Imports Exports
Granada 1,350,000 1,800,000
St, Lucia 1,500,000 550,000
St. Vincent 600,000 550,000
All of these islands have a preferential duty-
treaty with Canada and Great Britain, despite
which our own sales with them in 1913 were
about $2,000,000.
Sugar and rum are their chief products.
Dominica and Montserrat export limes, lime
juice and citrate of lime. Granada and St.
Lucia export cocoa, and St. Vincent’s chief
product is arrow-root. Last year St. Lucia
supplied 133,000 tons of coal to vessels, most
of which came from the United States.
The Bahama group, of which Nassau with
13,000 population is the capital, exported last
year goods valued at $1,300,000, of which
amount $830,000 was in sponges and $330,000
in sisal, the United States taking $620,000
worth. * The imports in the same period were
$2,000,000, of which we supplied $1,400,000.
Bermuda, 20 miles square with 3,000 inhabi
tants, depends for its existence upon the tour