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Show food prices compared You'd have to work twice as long to buy a pound of chuck roast If you lived in Bonn, West Germany, and six times as long in Brasilia, Brazil, to earn the cost of a pound of pork chops. A Japanese worker spends two hours and 48 minutes to earn the price of a pound of sirloin, compared to 23 minutes min-utes for his American counterpart. In Mexico, a factory worker puts in one hour and nine minutes tii enough for a pound of clffl!-en, clffl!-en, while it costs just over six minutes of a factory worker's time here. Bread? A pound costs almost nine minutes of work in Sweden, five here. Lower pay scales abroad play a role In earn-ing-time comparisons with UjS. workers. These are findings of agricultural agri-cultural attaches of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, who compare food costs every other month in 16 world capital cities. . On January 3, when they shopped shop-ped these items, prices for a pound of sirloin steak ranged from a high of $18.63 a pound in Japan, to a low of $1.30 a pound in Brasilia. Red meat prices rose in two thirds of the capitals shopped by attaches since their November 1 survey, up to a 14 percent increase in Canada. Pork prices fluctuated worldwide with no trend emerging. Poultry Poul-try prices remained strong, with Buenos Aires reporting report-ing a 52 percent increase. Tokyo and Stockholm reported re-ported a price decline from November. Egg prices were up in all capitals but Copenhagen and jumped 17 percent in Brussels, Brus-sels, Belgium. Milk prices remained relatively stable in over two thirds of the capitals surveyed but dropped drop-ped 8 percent in Tokyo. |