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Fresh shrimp are scarce and expensive in Guatemala. Juvenile 

 blue shrimp from near San Jose were selling in Guatemala City for 

 80 cents 25/ a pound for v.hole shrimp running about 36 to 50 to the 

 pound. Seiuidried shrimp froiri Mexico were retailing for 60 cents a pound. 

 In San Jose very small fresh shrinip, of more than 100 to the pound, whole, 

 were selling for 25 cents a pound. 



FO.ISIGN TftADS 



Shrimp are not exported from Guatemala. Shrimp imports are 

 principally semidried from Mexico, canned from the United States, and 

 frozen from the United States and El Salvador. The quantities of these 

 imports are not large, nor are shrimp shown separately in the import 

 statistics. In 195U the value of imports x^rere as follows: fresh and 

 frozen fishes, crustaceans, and mollusks, $28,000; dried, salted, brined, 

 or smoked fishes, crustaceans, and mollusks, $U0,000; canned crustaceans 

 and mollusks, $35,000. 



There are no export duties on fishery products, but there 

 are specific duties on fishery imports. The duties are based on gross 

 weight and amount to about 7 cents a pound for canned fishery products, 

 about U2 cents a pound for brined, salted, dried, or smoked, and about 

 1-| cents for fresh or frozen. 



25/ The Guatemalan rates are the equiva}.enL of United States currency. 



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