Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Fats and Oils Situation: Feb-March-April, 1950
Margarine consumption also probably will be encouraged to Some extent by the repeal-cf the excise tax The rate of cent per pound on uncolored margarine is less than 1 percent of the retail price in recent months; but the tax of 10 cents per pound on colored has accounted for about 25 percent of the estimated price of colored margarine in recent months. Since it costs no more to manufacture colored than uncolored margarine, and since most consumers have a decided preference for the colored product, colored margarine probably will replace uncolored in the District of Columbia and the 32 States that do not prohibit sale of colored. These States have about 60 percent of the population of the United States.
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