The year under review showed practically a return to normal for importations from Aden, which up to 1917 ran about 3,000,000 pounds a year. In that year the full effects of the war were felt in the Aden district, and shipments of coffee to this country dropped to 187,817 pounds. They rose to 432,000 pounds in 1918; and in 1919, to 681,290 pounds valued at $141,391. In 1920 there was a further rise to 889,633 pounds valued at $200,505; and in 1921 they amounted to 2,799,824 pounds valued at $476,672. But this trade is of little importance compared with that of the producing countries of this hemisphere, being less than one percent of our total imports.
Imports from the Dutch East Indies continued to decline, being fifty-five percent less than in 1920. The total of 12,438,016 pounds, however, valued at $1,771,602, is still two or three times the normal pre-war importations.
Exports of coffee in 1921—33,389,805 pounds of green coffee valued at $5,590,318 and 1,183,162 pounds of roasted valued at $305,288—were about the same as those of the year before in quantity, although much lower in value. The 1920 shipments were 34,785,574 pounds valued at $9,223,966 of green coffee and 1,971,869 pounds of roasted valued at $579,608.
In the re-export trade, shipments of coffee were lower than in several years, total amounts for 1921, 1920, and 1919 being 36,804,684 pounds, 49,144,091 pounds, and 81,129,641 pounds, and total values $3,911,847, $9,037,882, and $16,815,468.
| Percentage of Total Coffee Imports Into United States | ||||||||
| 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | Percentage of increase (+) or decrease (-) of 1921 imports compared | |||||
| From | Quantity | Value | Quantity | Value | Quantity | Value | Quantity | Value |
| Central America | 9.80 | 7.40 | 12.30 | 12.00 | 8.80 | 8.60 | -25.50 | -50.00 |
| Mexico | 2.20 | 2.10 | 1.50 | 1.50 | 2.00 | 2.40 | +37.80 | -10.30 |
| West Indies | 3.10 | 2.90 | 2.20 | 2.20 | 1.10 | 1.00 | -47.30 | -73.40 |
| Brazil | 58.80 | 61.30 | 60.50 | 58.90 | 62.50 | 54.00 | +6.80 | -48.10 |
| Colombia | 11.20 | 11.60 | 15.00 | 16.40 | 18.50 | 26.10 | +28.00 | -10.20 |
| Venezuela | 8.20 | 8.90 | 5.10 | 5.10 | 4.40 | 4.80 | -9.30 | -50.70 |
| Aden | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.08 | 0.20 | 0.30 | 214.80 | +137.70 |
| Dutch East Indies | 4.20 | 3.80 | 2.10 | 2.00 | 0.90 | 1.20 | -55.70 | -65.40 |
| Other countries | 2.45 | 1.95 | 1.23 | 1.52 | 1.60 | 1.60 | —— | —— |
| ——— | ——— | ——— | ——— | ——— | ——— | ——— | ——— | |
| Total | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | +3.40 | -43.40 |
Re-exports to France fell off from 16,760,977 pounds in 1920 to 11,429,952 in 1921. Mexico took 3,236,245 pounds as compared with 9,892,639 in the previous year, and Cuba also reduced her purchases from 6,319,105 pounds to 2,831,109. Shipments to Denmark, 4,099,403 pounds, were practically the same as in 1920, 3,951,166 pounds, as were also those to Germany, 3,200,158 pounds as compared with 2,917,773 in 1920.
In the trade of the two coffee-exporting possessions of the United States, Hawaii and Porto Rico, the 1921 figures show a considerable increase in shipments from Hawaii to continental United States and to foreign countries, while exports from Porto Rico fell off slightly.
Hawaii in 1921 sent 803,905 pounds valued at $123,347 to foreign countries, which compared with 687,597 pounds valued at $200,180 in the year before, and 4,183,046 valued at $650,036 to continental United States, as against 1,885,703 pounds valued at $476,033 in the previous year.
Porto Rico's crop, as usual, furnished the bulk of the domestic exports of the United States to foreign countries—29,546,348 pounds valued at $5,027,741, as against 1920 exports of 31,321,415 pounds valued at $8,455,908. Shipments from Porto Rico to continental United States amounted to 211,531 pounds valued at $35,780, as against 418,127 pounds valued at $118,663 in 1920.
Following are the figures of re-exports of coffee by countries in the calendar year 1921: