PROCESSED MUSHROOMS: U.S. PRODUCERS' PRODUCTION, SALES, AND INVENTORIES, AND U.S. IMPORTS, EXPORTS, AND APPARENT CONSUMPTION FIFTEENTH QUARTERLY REPORT: THIRD CALENDAR QUARTER 1981

Report to the President on Investigation No. 332-84 Under Section 332 of the Tariff Act of 1930

USITC PUBLICATION 1198

NOVEMBER 1981

United States International Trade Commission / Washington, D.C. 20436

UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION

COMMISSIONERS

Bill Alberger, Chairman

Michael J. Calhoun, Vice Chairman

Catherine Bedell

Paula Stern

Alfred E. Eckes

Eugene J. Frank

Kenneth R. Mason, Secretary to the Commission

This report was prepared principally by

Timothy P. McCarty Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forest Products Division

assisted by

Marretta A. Johnson Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forest Products Division

Office of Industries Norris A. Lynch, Director

Address all communications to

Office of the Secretary

United States International Trade Commission

Washington, D.C. 20436

THE FIFTEENTH QUARTERLY REPORT ON PROCESSED MUSHROOMS

HIGHLIGHTS

During the third quarter (July-September) 1981, compared to the same quarter 1980:

- APPARENT CONSUMPTION of canned mushrooms declined 12 percent to 49.1 million pounds;

- DOMESTIC PRODUCTION increased 46 percent to 23.1 million pounds;

- SALES of domestic canned mushrooms declined 7 percent to 20.7 million pounds;

- PRODUCER INVENTORIES of canned mushrooms increased 14 percent to 25.1 million pounds;

- IMPORTS declined 21 percent to 24 million pounds, constituting 49 percent of consumption compared to 55 percent last year and

- EXPORTS increased 52 percent to 191,000 pounds.

QUARTERLY STATISTICS

For the third quarter of 1981, compared with the same quarter a year earlier, domestic production and ending inventories of canned mushrooms increased while sales by domestic producers, imports, and apparent consumption decreased. Domestic production totaled 23.1 million pounds (+46 percent); inventories by producers, 25.1 million pounds (+14 percent); sales by producers, 20.7 million pounds (-7 percent); imports, 24 million pounds (-21 percent); and apparent consumption, 49.1 million pounds (-12 percent).

Sales

The decline in sales of domestic canned mushrooms primarily reflected a sharp drop in sales of those mushrooms packed as stems and pieces in institutional-size containers, which usually are used by food processors and retail food-service outlets. Sales of frozen mushrooms (4.7 million pounds), however, were 40 percent more than in the corresponding period of 1980. Sales of frozen mushrooms were equivalent to 23 percent of canned mushroom sales, up from 15 percent in the same quarter 1980. Exports increased 52 percent to 191,000 pounds, but remained negligible with respect to U.S. production and apparent consumption.

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Imports

The reduction in imports of processed mushrooms reflects the temporary rate of duty increase imposed on prepared or preserved mushrooms which became effective on November 1, 1980. This action, directed by the President, was taken under provisions of the Trade Act of 1974 following a U.S. International Trade Commission determination that imports of prepared or preserved mushrooms are a substantial cause of serious injury, or the threat thereof, to the domestic industry. Third quarter 1981 imports were equivalent to 49 percent of consumption, compared with 55 percent in the same quarter a year earlier.

Taiwan had been the principal supplier of imported mushrooms in recent years, but during the third quarter of 1981, its position fell behind that of the People's Republic of China (China). Between July-September of 1980 and 1981, Taiwan's share of the imports dropped from 54 to 27 percent while China's jumped from 10 to 38 percent. The other major suppliers are the Republic of Korea (Korea) and Hong Kong. The share of total imports from Hong Kong rose slightly from 19 to 20 percent while that from Korea dropped from 13 to 11 percent. China, which was granted most-favored-nation status on February 1, 1980, was the only major supplier of imported mushrooms to register a gain (nearly 300 percent) during July-September 1981 compared with the corresponding period of 1980.

Third Quarters 1979-81

The performance of the processed mushroom industry was mixed during the third-quarter periods of 1979-81. Production and ending inventories of canned mushrooms increased each quarter while sales, imports, and consumption rose for the 1979 and 1980 third-quarter periods, but declined during third quarter 1981. The ratio of imports to consumption dropped from 60 percent to 49 percent during the period.

MARKET YEAR DATA

As discussed in the fourteenth quarterly report, production, imports, and apparent consumption all declined for the most recent marketing year (July 1980-June 1981) compared with the preceding marketing year (1979/80), with the ratio of imports to consumption declining from 52 to 45 percent. In that year, domestic production totaled 100.4 million pounds and imports, 96.5 million pounds, decreases of 3 percent for production and 15 percent for imports from the previous year.

Apparent consumption correspondingly fell 3 percent to 213.1 million pounds. Sales of canned mushrooms increased 4 percent to 99.5 million pounds in 1980/81. In regard to frozen mushrooms, sales in 1980/81 reached 17.5 million pounds, an increase of 59 percent from 1979/80. In 1980/81, sales of frozen mushrooms were equivalent to 18 percent of canned mushrooms sales, up from 12 percent in 1980/81.

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