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U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES. 



None of the fishery products imported into Peru are reexported. 

 The American fishery products, such as sardines, canned salmon, 

 dried cod, etc., predominate in this market, and when any of such 

 products are imported from countries other than the United States 

 it is not because of better quality but is simply a matter of price. 

 It is true that some varieties of canned fish are imported from other 

 countries on account of being prepared and preserved differently from 

 those produced in the United States, but, on the whole, the American 

 goods are the most popular, and when two articles of the same class 

 and kind are presented for sale — one from the United States and the 

 other from another country — the American product is generally 

 chosen. 



Recently the price of American canned fishery products has been 

 higher than the price of foreign goods of the same kind, and on 

 account of the low rate of exchange between Peru and the United 

 States there has been comparatively little importation of the Amer- 

 ican products. Thus these two elements are the real ones that make 

 competition with other countries difficult and are the cause of these 

 goods being bought in countries where they can be produced and sold 

 at a cheaper price. Of course, such articles as a certain kind of fish, 

 preserved and packed in a way peculiar to a certain country, are 

 imported only from that country. The above statements do not refer 

 to that class of goods, however, but to fishery products that are 



