Turning to the trade in Germany, the cacao industry here and its consumption,[19] we are again greeted with cheery prospects. According to the official inquiry, German trade in Cacao products for the years 1907-1910 is shown in the following table:
========================+===================+============================ No. on offic. statistics| | Exports from Germany +———————————————————+ |Duty| |Description| Imports to Germany |Free|—————— inclusive ————— | | 1907 | 1908 | 1909 | 1910 |1910| 1907| 1908| 1909| 1910 ====+===========+======+======+======+======+====+=====+=====+=====+===== | | | | | | | | | | 63 |Cacao Bean | | | | | | | | | | raw |345154|343519|407248|439413| — | 1390| 1186| 1429| 1620 | | | | | | | | | | 64 |Cacao Shell| | | | | | | | | | whole | 55| 1| 6| 6| — |12802| 9901|11825|17006 | | | | | | | | | | 168 |Cacao Butter| | | | | | | | | | Cacao Oil | 243| 106| 208| 263|22223|20804|18494|27291|22465 | | | | | | | | | | 203a|Cacao Mass,| | | | | | | | | |Ground Cacao| | | | | | | | | | shells | 165| 1196| 128| 58| 125| 3430| 3519| 3694| 5219 | | | | | | | | | | 203b|Cacao | 6792| 8148| 6497| 6446|2599| 3050| 1752| 2803| 3755 | Powder | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 204a|Chocolate &| | | | | | | | | | Chocolate | | | | | | | | | |Equivalents| 11636| 10050| 12197| 15183|1513| 5021| 3671| 4609| 4712 | | | | | | | | | | 204b|Products | | | | | | | | | |from Cacao | | | | | | | | | |Mass, Cacao| | | | | | | | | | Powder, | | | | | | | | | |Chocolate | | | | | | | | | | and | | | | | | | | | | Chocolate | | | | | | | | | |Equivalents,| | | | | | | | | | Acorn, and| | | | | | | | | | Oat cacaos| 1239| 1281| 1258| 1140|2027| 4260| 4439| 4555| 4964
The year 1910 brought a total import of 878,413 cwts. of raw cacao, thus overtopping the figures of the previous year, which had created a record with 814,496 cwts., by 64,330 cwts.
Coming to the geographical distribution, we find that they were imported into Germany in the following proportions, namely:
Comparison 1910 1909 with previous years British West Africa cwts. 206 180 189 686 + 6 494 Port. West Africa (St. Thomas etc.) " 239 756 181 230 + 58 526 Brazil (Bahia) " 128 760 137 396 - 8 636 Ecuador (Guayaquil) " 97 454 101 038 - 3 584 Dominican Republic (Samana) " 64 932 66 210 - 1 278 The Rest of British America " 21 266 40 658 - 5 08 Venezuela " 40 068 36 002 - 44 26 Cameroon " 20 426 22 026 - 1 420 Ceylon " 15 892 12 488 - 3 402 East Indies (Dutch) " 8 802 6 772 - 2 030 Cuba " 2 610 3 066 - 456 Haiti " 3 676 2 614 - 1 562 Samoa " 3 216 2 230 - 314 Togo " 564 250 - 314