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Excerpt from Foreign Crops and Markets, Vol. 67: August 3, 1953 With respect to agricultural imports, receipts from abroad during May 1953 were valued at a reduction of 22 percent compared with the $1422 021 000 worth imported in April, but of only 6 percent compared with those for May 1952. The country's total imports of all merchandise, agricultural as well as nonagricultural, amounted in value to only during the month under review, compared with $997 in April, and in May last year. On a dollar-value basis, agricultural products constituted 37 percent of the total imports during May compared with 42 percent in April and percent in May 1952. As usual, such commodities as coffee, sugar, rubber and wool constituted the principal agricultural imports. The figures also disclose that while the value of our May 1953 agricultural imports declined by 6 percent compared with those for the we month a year ago, imports of nonagricultural products increased by 1h percent. Quantitatively, the May 1953 agricultural imports compared with those for the same month last year, show very large reductions for canned and corned beef, dutiable wool, hops, castor beans, copra, sugar and molasses, white potatoes, fresh tomatoes and rubber. Reductions are also shown for barley, shelled almonds, cacao or cocoa beans, and sisal. On the other hand, they show increases compared with May 1952 for a number of products, viz. Cattle, cheese, casein and lactarene, hides and skins, nondutiable wool, cotton, pineapples, Brazil nuts, cashews, coconut meat, coconut oil, palm oil, coffee, spices, jute, olives in brine, tung oil, bananas, and tea. The value of the Nation' s agricultural imports during May exceeded that of its agricultural exports by $109 681 000. In the preceding month, agricultural imports exceeded agricultural exports in value by $198 000. During May, 1952, however, they exceeded the value of our agricultural exports by only 000.-by Leo. J. Schaben. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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