The first export to the United States of Israel’s Jaffa oranges were sold out quickly yesterday at the New York Fruit Auction Corporation Market to dealers and buyinss from a half dozen major cities.
Yechiel Krieger, deputy trade commissioner of Israel in the United States, who attended the auction, said that the quick sale indicated possibilities of an evantual market for the Jaffa oranges of several hundred thousand cases a year with an export value of $2, 000, 000.
He said that the choice Jaffa oranges had not been previously exported to the United States in commercial quantities because sanitation procedures, applied with special strictness to imports, had discouraged efforts at sales in this market. He added that the problem had been met and that another shipment was en route to New York. The Commissioner helped to negotiate the new addition to Israeli exports to the United States.
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