Executive Order 8758—Establishing Conversion Factors for Use in Administering Quotas on Imports of Coffee

Whereas the entry for consumption of coffee in the United States is limited to the quotas provided for in the Inter-American Coffee Agreement signed on November 28, 1940; and

Whereas such quotas are expressed in terms of bags of 60 kilograms net, or equivalent quantities; and

Whereas the term "bags of 60 kilograms net" is applicable only to raw (green) coffee; and

Whereas it is necessary and desirable that provision be made for determining the equivalent of a bag of coffee of 60 kilograms net in terms of pounds, and for determining the weight of roasted coffee in terms of the weight of raw (green) coffee:

Now, Therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 2 of the joint resolution of Congress approved April 11, 1941 (Public Law 33, 77th Cong., 1st Sess.), I hereby establish the following conversion factors for use in administering the quotas on imports of coffee provided for in the said agreement:

1. One bag of 60 kilograms of coffee shall be considered to be the equivalent of 132.276 pounds of coffee.

2. One pound of roasted coffee shall be considered to be the equivalent of 1.2 pounds of raw (green) coffee.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
May 21, 1941.