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Hawaii's visible—or commodity—exports are mainly sngar and pineapple, al-
though there is a considerable volume of other products that we produce and
ship to the Mainland U.S.
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In a normal year we will ship to the Mainland approximately 1,200,000 tons
of raw sugar.
PINEAPPIE
Pineapple production Is somewhat more variable than sugar production. In re-
cent years, pineapple production, most all of which is shipped to the Mainland,
has been in the range of 17 million cases of solid fruit, 11 million cases of juice,
and 1 million of juice concentrates. It is expected that In 1973 Hawaii will addi-
tionally ship to the Mainland close to 70 million pounds of fresh pineapple.
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No precise figures are available, but It is estimated that approximately fl5 mil-
lion of garments made in Hawaii go the Mainland markets each year.
Since 1964, Hawaii has more than doubled her outshipments of fresh papaya
to the Mainland. Now close to 10 million pounds of fresh papaya are air flown to
the Mainland each year and local producers look to continued expansion of this
market.
While Mainland marketings comprise between 40 and 45 percent of the volume
of Hawaii's fresh papaya sales, the return on these marketings accounts for 60
percent of papapya receipts.
In addition to fresh fruit marketings, Hawaii ships close to 1 million pounds
of processed papapya products to the Mainland each year.
MACADAMIA NUTS
In 1971, 1.5 million pounds of processed macadamla nuts went to Mainland
markets—double the 15)64 volume of shipment.s. With the tremendous planting of
new trees in recent years, as the orchards mature and as more trees reach the
bearing stage, the increase in macadamla exports to the Mainland should be even
greater during this decade.
FLOWEBB AND NUB8ERT PRODUCTS
Out-of-state sales of flowers and nursery products were valued at $2.7 million
in 1971. The sale of anthuriums accounted for 56 percent and orchids 28 percent
of Hawaii's horticultural exports. Although no figures are available. It is known
that the overwhelming majority of these exports go to the Mainland.
Anthurlum outshipments to the Mainland, doubling In the past six years,
totaled 6.5 million flowers last year. Mainland sales represented 49 percent of
Hawaii's anthurlum market In 1970 and 65 percent in 1971.
Hawaii's invisible exports—services sold locally for Mainland dollars—con-
sist primarily of .sales to the Federal government (mainly the defense agencies)
and to Mainland visitors.
DEFENSE
About one-third of all defense agency expenditures in Hawaii are for the pur-
chase of commodities or services from outside contracting agencie.s. This amounts
to between $200- and $300-milllon a year, and a fairly large fraction of this is for
contract construction. Shipping strikes, which interfere drastically with the flow
of building materials to the islands, cause a very large loss in revenue from this
source.
visrroits
Approximately 1.6 million visitors came to Hawaii last year from the Mainland
U.S., staying an average of 9..S days each (14.9 million visitor days) and spending
while in Hawaii approximately $41 per person per day ($607 million). There are
various ways to measure the impact of this on Hawaii's economy, but our best