Since trade between Japan and the United States was discontinued diiring 

 World War II, imports of frozen tuna declined sharply, although some light - 

 meat varieties continued to he received from Costa Eica, the Canal Zone, 

 Canada, Peru, and Mexico. In 19^8, Japan resumed the exporting of frozen 

 tuna to the United States, and in 1950, shipments amounted to 25,369,000 

 pounds, over twice the quantity received in any pre-war year. In the same year, 

 Peru with shipments of 13,256,000 pounds also hecame a major exporter of frozen 

 tuna to the United States. 



By 1951, imports of fresh and frozen tuna, which consisted almost 

 entirely of frozen tuna, reached 62,085,000 poimds, or 19 percent of the 

 domestic catch of tuna and tunalike fishes and in 1952 they amounted to 

 69,003,000 poiinds. 



In recent months two new types of frozen tuna have "been imported from 

 Japan. These are frozen, cleaned tuna loins, ready to he cut to the proper 

 size and placed in the cans, and frozen tuna already packed in cans which 

 need only to have oil and salt added "before sealing and sterilizing. 



In 1951 a "bill was introduced in Congress calling for a three cent 

 per pound duty on imports of fresh or frozen tuna. Passage was obtained 

 in the House of Representatives hut not in the Senate. 



Canned Tuna in Oil, or in Oil and Other Substances 



Small quantities of canned tujoa in oil were imported into the United 

 States from Europe prior to the development of the domestic canning 

 industry. These imports remained relatively small and have not competed 

 seriously with the domestic pack. After exporting of frozen tuna to the 

 United States from Japan was begun in 1925, fishery firms in that country 

 began to explore the possibility of canning the tuna in Japan and shipping 

 the canned pack to the United States. Experimental packs were canned in 

 1926 and 1927, and in 1931 a total of 6^^8,900 pounds of canned albacore was 

 shipped to the United States. In the following year, imports of this product 

 from Japan exceeded 5,000,000 pounds, and by 1933, imports of canned tuna 

 from all sources amounted to 14,382,168 pounds, 99 percent of which was 

 received from Japan. These imports wereequal to ^.5 percent of the 

 United States pack of tuna during that year. 



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