The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-03-04
EGG IMPORTATION
LARGELY INCREASED
United States Received More in Deem
Der Than in the Entire Fiscal
Year Ending With June,
1913.

| Washington, ID. c., March 4.-The
growing dependence OF the United States
upon foreign countries for part of its
food supply lends interest to special
statement regarding imports and exports
of eggs, prepared by the bureau of for
eign and domestic commerce, department
of commerce. Imports of eggs in the
month of December last amounted to
,5l4,296 dozens, or more than in the
entire fiscal year which ended with June,
1918. In the fiscal year 1908 the i'm
ports amounted to 36S,000 dozens; in
1910, $4,000; in 1913, 1857 600 dozens !;
and in the first three months under the
new tariff law-October, November, and
December last-during which period eggs
were admitted free of duty, the imports
aggregated l,70l,l53 dozens, most Of
them arriving in the month of December
Recent consular advices from China and
European ports indicate continued large
increases in the shipments of eggs to this
country.
Eggs other than those in the natural
condition are still subject to duty, though
at reduced rates, and these show in
creasing imports in the brief period for
which the monthly figures are at hand.
Frozen or preserved eggs, the duty on
which is now two cents per pound, com
pared with five cents a dozen under the
former tariff, shows for the last three
months of 1918 total importation of
about 100000 pounds, valued at APP
proximately $4,000. Egg yolks, now
dutiable at 10 per cent IA valorem in
stead of 25 per cent. as under the old
law, aggregated about 100000 pounds.
and dried eggs, 1854 pounds for the
three months ended with December. In
each case the imports were considerably
period of 1912.
The countries contributing the eggs
imported into the United States are few
in number. Our imported eggs are chief
ly the product of China, Siberia, Russia,
and southern Europe, those arriving from
England and Germany having been for
the most part shipped into those coun-
tries for resale to foreign markets. of
eggs imported in the natural state, Eng !
land is the chief nominal source, next in |
order being China (includ!ng Hongkongi /
and Canada. Frozen eggs are chiefly
from England with smaller quantities
from Hongkong. Egg yolks come almost
exclusively from Germany, which inn
ports large quantities of eggs from the
producing centers of Europe and Asia
and re-exports them in this form to the |
United States and other parts of the
world.
Most of the imported eggs enter
through the ports OF New York, Philadel-
phia, Boston, San Francisco, Baltimore,
Seattle, Takoma, and Port
land, Ore. Hawaii also receives eOnsid-
cradle quantities of frozen or preserved
eggs from Hongkong, an important dis
tributing point for Chinese products.
Exports of eggs during the year ended
with December, 1913, amounted to H.
100000 dozens, compared with practically
100000 in 1912, 5,66600O in 1910, and
100000 in 1908, a decade ago. While
exports of eggs are still much greater
han imports, the closing months of the
year showed distinctly downward tend
sney in exports and an upward trend in
imports of that commodity.