The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-06
u. s. IMPORTS EGGS. IN LARGE NUMBERS

Washington, D. C., March 5- The growing dependence of the United
 States upon foreign countries for
 part of it's food supply lends interest
 to a special statement regarding inn ports and exports of eggs, prepared by the Bureau of Foreign, and Domes- tic Commerce, Department of Com
 merce- Imports of eggs in the month of December last amounted to 1.514,296 dozens, or more than in the entire fiscal year which ended with June, 1913. In the fiscal year 1903 the i'm
 ports amounted to 36S. 900 dozens; in 1910, 818,Oe0 ;in 1913, 1,367, ,0oO dozens; and in the first three months under , the new, tariff law-October, November, and December last-during which per- i iod eggs admitted free of duty, the imports aggregated 1,701, ,153 dog ems, most of them arriving in the
 month of December. Recent consular advices from China and European ports indicate continued large in- creases 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 increasing 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. compared with five cents a dozen under the former tariff, show for the last three months of 1918 a to- tai importation of about one million pounds, valued at approximately $115.- 900. Egg yolzs, now dutiable at 10 per cent. ad va1oren instead of 25 per cent, as under the old law, aggregated about ,000 pounds, and dried eggs, 1 8, 534 pounds for the three months end ed with December In each case the
 those for the corresponding period of 1912.
 The countries contributing the eggs ! imported into the United States are
 few in number. Our imported eggs
 are chiefly the product of China, Sf- beria, Russia, and Southern Europe,
 those arriving from England and Ger
 many having been for the most part shipped into those countries for re-
 sale to foreign markets Of eggs | imported in the natural state, Eng 1 land is the chief nominal source, next 1 in order being China (including Hong kong) and Canada Frozen eggs are chiefly from England, with smaller quantities from Hongkong. Egg yo1ks
 come almost exclusively from Ger
 many, which imports large quantities l of eggs from the producing centers of Europe and Asia, and re-exports them l in this form to the United States and other parts of the world
 l Most of the imported eggs enter l through the ports of New York, PhiIa- 1 delph1a, Boston, san Franc1Scost Sal
 tiInore, Milwaukee, Seattle, Tacoma
 and Portland, Oregon Hawaii also receives considerable. quantities of frozen or preserved eggs from Hong kong. an important distributing point for Chinese products.
 l Exports of eggs during the year
 ended with December, 1913, amount l ed to IT 2-3 million dozens, compar-
 ed with practically 1 g million in 1912 5 2-3 million in 1910, and 1 1-2 mil l lion in 1903, a. decade ago. While l exports of eggs are still much greater ithan imports, the closing months of
 the year showed a distinctly down | ward tendency in exports and an up- ward trend in imports of that cona- 1 rnunity.