COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-THIRD CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

H. R. 7735 and S. 1386

LIB.

CONTENTS

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H. R. 7735. A bill to amend section 2 of the Commodity Exchange Act, as

amended, relating to the meaning of the word "commodity".

Statement of-

Hadlick, Paul E., attorney, Washington, D. C..........

Horn, Claud L., Chief, Sugar and Tropical Products Analysis Branch,

Department of Agriculture__

Israel, Leon, vice president, New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange,

Inc

19, 37, 51

19, 37, 51

Lobo, Gustavo, Jr., president, New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange,

Inc

Mehl, Joseph M., Administrator, Commodity Exchange Authority,

United States Department of Agriculture, accompanied by Rodger

R. Kauffman, Deputy Administrator, and Douglas B. Bagnell,

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Assistant Administrator for Compliance..

Mississippi Additional data submitted to the committee:

Annual coffee supplement, 1882 to 1953:

Coffee production and consumption__

ginia

Georgia

Texas

Florida

3

J, Hawaii

SSIONER

Rico

Price range of futures contracts on New York Coffee and Sugar

Exchange, Inc..

Barnes, Stanley N., Assistant Attorney General, letter of March 2,

1954, to Don Rogers, Senate Committee on Banking and Currency__

Brazil:

Area of bearing coffee

Land under cultivation.

By-laws, extracts from-New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange, Inc. -

Chart illustrations:

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Number of coffee trees in production.

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Coffee available for export has declined from the high of the 30's-

Coffee-drinking population of the United States is due to continue

climbing-...

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Europe is not yet taking its prewar proportion of the world's coffee

production.

Number of coffee trees in Brazil has not recovered substantially

from the drop of the thirties_

Number of new coffee drinkers is due for a big jump upwards. -

People in the United States are living longer

Proportion of coffee trees in the high producing age group (8 to

20 years) is low

United States per capita consumption of coffee among adults has
been increasing_..

Coffee open interest-monthly high and low-February 1954
Contract labor on a yearly basis, commonly called colonos-.
Daily coffee transactions, in bags..

Monthly report on Brazilian coffee situation, American Embassy, Rio

De Janeiro, January 25, 1954.

Table 1-Coffee exports from Brazil, 1952–53 and 1953-54.

Table 2-Coffee: Exports and ending port stocks, Brazil, Decem-

ber 1953_

Table 3-Coffee: Exports from Brazil, by part of origin and

destination, November 1953..

Morse, Hon. True D., Acting Secretary of Agriculture, letter of May

27, 1953, to Hon. George D. Aiken

Sales to Europe—Comparative offerings to United States-

Volume of sales, February 1954