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  dutytreaty
  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  inhabitants, ­
  depends  for  its  existence  upon  the  tour ­