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Excerpt from Marketing Fresh Fruit in Europe Compiled from Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States. Fresh fruit from the United States finds a wide distribution in Europe. In addition to such important direct markets as Great Britain, Germany, and the Scandinavian countries it reaches many interior countries not shown in tables of exports. Apples, for ex ample, are reshipped from the primary ports to such countries as Switzerland, Austria, Poland, and Finland. The World War pre vented this redistribution from becoming as great as it probably would have been, because of the elimination of Russia as one of our markets and because of the impoverishment of the central European nations. The principal American fresh fruits now marketed in Europe are apples, pears, oranges, and grapefruit. Other fruits are shipped in smaller quantities, and their importance in the export trade seems to be increasing. They include plums, peaches, cranberries, and other berries, and grapes. Table 1 shows the exports of these fruits to Europe in 1926 as compared with the total exports from the United States in that year. About 85 per cent of the exports of apples, 49 per cent of the grapefruit, and 48 per cent of the pears went to Europe. Europe was a relatively small outlet for the other items, but even for these there is a definite tendency toward the shipment of larger quantities to that continent. Additional statis tics on the quantities of fruit exported to Europe are found in the appendix. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.