APPENDIX I


 NOTE ON IMPORT DATA-TABLES 23a-23d


 In tables 23a-23d we present tabulated summaries of the total imports, in quantity
terms, of certain selected agricultural and other related products for Jamaica, Trinidad
and Tobago, British Guiana and Barbados. For Jamaica and British Guiana the series run
from 1945 to 1960, a sixteen year span. For Trinidad and Tobago theperiod extends from
1949 to 1960 and for Barbados from 1946 to 1958.

 The selection of the items which are included in the summary tables has been deter-
mined mainly by the USDA contract requirements. We have, however, also included a
few commodities which, though not expressly required for our immediate exercise, are
none-the-less valuable as they are basic import items and possess much trading potential.

 Except for one or two small points the list of commodities considered is self explana-
tory. Meat and Meat Preparations are presented as Group 1. This group is further sub-
divided into four main sub-groups: (i) Meat -Fresh, chilled or frozen (ii) Meat- Dried,
salted, smoked or pickled (iii) Meat Preparations, and (iv) Meat in Airtight Containers.
The main items of each sub-group are also shown.

 Dairy Products and Eggs are presented as Group 2. The main items of this group are
 Milk, Cheese, Butter, Eggs and a smaller residual item of Miscellaneous Dairy Products.
 The only one of the above items which is further broken down is Milk. It is divided into
 its three main categories of (a) Tinned Milk (unsweetened) or, as it is commonly called,
 evaporated milk (b) Tinned Milk (sweetened), commonly called condensed milk and (c)
 all other forms of milk, whether Dried, Skimmed or Powdered.

 Butter includes both table and cooking butter but excludes margarine and other butter
 substitutes which are included under Edible Oils and Fats. The quantity of eggs imported
 each year has not been included in the overall quantity total for Dairy Products and Eggs,
 :is imports of eggs are recorded in various quantity units in the different territories.
 Some territories record imports of eggs in dozens while others record them in pounds, or
 somr may even give both quantity measures. There are also instances when imports of
 'ggs have been recorded in great hundreds 1/ as well as in plain numbers of eggs.

 Group 3, Fish and Fish Preparations, is self explanatory, but in Group 4, Cereals and
 Cereal Preparations, the figures for Jamaica require some explanation. In this group,
 ihe Jamaica figures for \Wheat and Wheat Flour include a small quantity of Rye and Flour
 of tye between 1946 and 1953. After 1953 this item is recorded separately. After 1953
 1/ A great hundred = 120.