Meat Imports Almost
5% Of Domestic Output

WASHINGTON —(USDA)— Last week 18,052 metric tons of foreign-produced red meat passed for entry into the United States, 39.7 billion pounds and the equivalent of 4.8 percent of domestic production.

Beef passed for entry amounted to 84.4 percent of the total at 33.6 million pounds, pork 10.3 percent at 4.1 million pounds, and lamb and mutton 4.5 percent at 1.8 million pounds. Veal accounted for less than one percent and goat meat at 171,600 pounds was also less than one percent.

U.S. domestic meat production last week was 831.3 million pounds. Beef made up 58.5 percent of the total at 485.9 million pounds, pork 40.5 percent at 337.1 million pounds, veal half of one percent at 4.1 million pounds, and lamb and mutton half of one percent at 4.2 million pounds.

Beef passed for entry amounted to the equivalent of 6.9 percent of domestic production, veal less than one percent, pork 1.2 percent and lamb and mutton 42.1 percent of domestic production.