BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 
117 
CERTIFICATION FOR EXPORT 
During the year 9.412 certificates covering 3.591,165 containers of 
plants and plant products were issued to meet the sanitary require- 
ments of foreign countries. This represents an increase of 204 in the 
number of certificates and a decrease of 426.642 in the number of con- 
tainers certified, compared with the fiscal Year 1938. 
Export certificates were issued at 37 ports covering 65 different c 
modities which were exported to S3 foreign countries. Some of the 
more important commodities certified were the following: Apples, 
2,170 shipments consisting of 1.362.106 boxes. 17.7S5 barrels, 56.484 
baskets, and 181 packages: oranges. 1.137 shipments consisting of 566.- 
267 boxes; pears, S23 shipments consisting of 500.639 boxes and 11.948 
baskets; potatoes. 1.615 shipments consisting of 602,922 bags, L8,7 
crates. 9.145 barrels, and 90 boxes. 
Many of the shipments of apples and pears were certified under the 
cooperative arrangement with the Bureau of Agricultural Economics 
of the Department, whereby licensed inspectors of that Bureau located 
at shipping points make inspections and issue reports which are ac- 
cepted by the plant-quarantine inspectors at the ports of export as a 
basis for issuing the required export certificate. 
A brief summary of the export-certification work appears in table 21. 
Table 21. — Certification for export, by port, fiscal year 1939 
Com- i 
Cer:i::- Total \ modi- Foreign! ; 
coun- !: 
fries 
! cates .'containers 
1 I certified cer- 
Atlanta 
Baltimore. - 
Boston 
Brownsville 
Buffalo 
Cale.tico 
Canal Zone. 
Chic; - 
Detroit 
Eagle Pass 
El Paso... . 
Galveston.. 
Hida'.- 
Honolulu... 
Houston... 
Jacksonville 
Laredo 
Los Angeles 
Mayaguez.. 
Mobile 
.V; ■- 
ber 
1 
15 
16 
61 
1 
91 
14 
16 
153 
4 
49 
10 
21 
1 
5 
119 
4 
121 
22 
9 
A 
29 
34 
2 - - 
35. 4S7 
2 
51,090 
16 
4 
2,664 
21 
12 
1 
1.244 
S2,G04 
86 
8,565 
44 
1,619 
Xu m ■ 
ber 
1 
3 
3 
3 
1 
5 
1 
2 
4 
2 
13 
1 
3 
1 
3 
4 
2 
9 
2 
4 
Xumber: 
1 
4 
8 
1 
1 
1 
2 
1 
1 
2 
1 
1 
! Com- 
Certifi- modi- Foreign 
Port I cates 
- 
rifled 
New Orleans... 
Newport News 
New York 
Nogales 
Norfolk 
Pensacola 
Philadelphia... 
Per: Arthur.... 
Portland 
Presidio... 
San Diego 
San Fra 
San Juan. 
San Pedro 
Seattle.. 
Tampa 
Washington 
Total 
X it ru- 
ber 
74 
27 
5,021 
50 
8 
1 
9 
4 
546 
1 
3 
5S3 
1 
867 
1,480 
3 
11 
9,412 
3 
5 
425.005 
1, 149, 363 
4,3% 
17 
3, 591, 165 
Xu m - 
N 
19,004 
475 
1,283,756 
126 
180 
150 
H ; 
3,700 ' 
- 
918 ! 
Nu ta- 
bor 
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4 
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17 
I 
5 
15 
2 
10 
1 Includes 1 duplicate certificate and 1 certificate for commodity not exported. 
U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1943 
For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D.C. Price 15 cents 
