Annual Report of the Financial Adviser-General Receiver for the Fiscal Year October 1926 to September 1927

The report was submitted to the Secretary of State of the United States and the Haitian Secretary of State for Finance and Commerce through the American High Commissioner, and it is signed by W. W. Cumberland as Financial Adviser-General Receiver. It states that foreign commerce was valued at 155,252,042 gourdes in 1926-27, a decline of 20.59 percent, that imports fell 16.44 percent and exports 24.44 percent, and that the fall in coffee volume and price explained most of the export decline. Total receipts were 38,861,534.79 gourdes, down 14.34 percent from the largest receipts in the history of the republic, and expenditures from revenue exceeded receipts by 885,628.96 gourdes.

The treasury was never embarrassed and retirement of the public debt continued at a rapid pace. Chapters also cover the origin and destination of trade, ports, shipping, customs administration and tariff revision, internal revenue, the public debt, currency, banking and credit, and an annex by the Director General of Internal Revenue.