56 COMMERCIAL STATISTICS. 
ing the impression that eggs are now dutiable. 
They are not — they are admitted free. Though 
imports are small, they have affected prices on 
the sea board and Canada border. Farmers’ 
wives and children would be glad of the two 
million dollars yearly sent abroad for eggs. 
“Koos come from France and Belgium (China 
107,275 dozen, in 1887), England, Germany, 
Mexico and specially Canada whence (1887) 
13,682,000 dozen. Exports never have reached 
four hundred thousand dozen. 
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS FROM 1877 To 1887 
S IMPORT 
pate | PORTS | exp. poz. || DATE S lexp. poz. 
pe DOZ. | DOZ. 
1877 5,048,271; 32,591 1883 | 15,277,065} 300,023 
1878 | 6,053,649} 94,265 1884 | 16,488,507} 295,484 
1879 | 6,022,506; 91,740 1885 | 16,099,410; 240,768 
1880 | 7,778,492) 85,885 1886 | 15,992,642) 212,202 
1881 | 9,578,071} 80,146 1887 | 13,980,054) 372,912 
1882 | 11,928,784} 146,776 
“A duty of five cents per dozen will incon- 
venience only foreigners.” 
