Fruit, United States Foreign Trade Related to Production 1910-1949

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Excerpt from Fruit, United States Foreign Trade Related to Production 1910-1949: A Statistical HandbookContrary to general opinion the United States was a net importer of fruit dming the four decades with the exception of the 1934 season and the three war years, 1942, 1943, and 1944. Of course, the relatively large annual imports of bananas were the principal factor. If bwanas are excluded from the imported volume, the country would have been on a net export basis for the entire period except in the 1921 season when domestic production was reduced sharply by a heavy late frost. Including bananas, the United States had available for consumption in the 1910 season the equivalent of percent more fruit than was produced domestically while in 1949 the net import was percent of moduction. For the period 1910 to 1922, inclusive, net imports ranged between percent (1918) and percent (1921) of: production, while for the favorable export period, 1923 to 1938, inclusive, the range was between percent (1934) export surplus to percent (1929) net imports. For the World War II and subsequent years, 1939 to 1949: inclusive, the supply of fruit available for consumption varied from percent (1943) less than woduction to percent (1940) more than production.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.