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SUMMARIES OF TARIFF INFORMATION

VOLUME 16

Free List (Not Including Commodities Subject to
Import-Excise or Processing Taxes)

Volume 16, in five parts, as listed below, contains summaries on products provided for in Schedule 16 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (paragraphs 1601 to 1816, inclusive).

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Introduction

General.--The Summaries of Tariff Information contained herein have been prepared in response to a resolution of the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives, adopted July 25, 1947, which directs the Commission to "rewrite or otherwise bring up to date. the commodity Summaries of Tariff Information." The complete project includes approximately 2,300 summaries--about 1,800 on commodities on the dutiable list of the Tariff Act of 1930 including commodities on the free list of that act which are subject to import-excise or processing taxes; and 500 on commodities which are free of duty and not subject to import-excise or processing taxes. The entire series consists of 16 volumes and the summaries on commodities which are on the free list and not subject to import-excise or processing taxes are contained in volume 16, of which the present document is one of five parts.

The summaries have been made as brief as possible in order to keep the whole project within practicable bounds. They give the tariff status of each of the various commodities and present statistical data on United States production, imports, and exports, and other information pertinent to an understanding of the conditions of competition between imports and domestic production.

Tariff status.-Each summary in volume 16 gives the tariff status under the tariff acts of 1922 and 1930 of the commodity (or commodities) covered by the sunmary. (As indicated above, all the commodities covered by volume 16 are free of duty under the Tariff Act of 1930 and are not subject to import-excise or processing taxes.) If the duty-free status of the commodity has been bound in trade agreements, that fact is indicated and the trade agreements containing the commitment are identified.

The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, dated October 30, 1947, which was negotiated at Geneva, Switzerland, is referred to in the summaries as the Geneva agreement; the agreement dated October 10, 1949, which is supplemental to the General agreement and was negotiated at Annecy, France, is referred to as the Annecy agreement. Most of the concessions in the Geneva agreement became effective on January 1, 1948, but some became effective on subsequent dates. If the concessions (binding of the duty-free status) in that agreement became effective after January 1, 1948, the effective date is given in the summary; if no date is given, it is to be assumed that the concession became effective on January 1, 1948. Very few of the concessions in the Annecy agreement had become effective at the time (February 1950) these summaries were sent to press. Where the Annecy concession had become effective, the effective date is given; otherwise the reference to the concession contains the notation ". . . not made effective on January 1, 1950."

Statistics on United States production, exports, and imports.--As a rule the summaries give statistics on United States production, exports, and imports for several prewar years (the number depending on what seems to be appropriate for the particular commodity), for one war year (1943), and for three postwar years (1946, 1947, and 1948). Where statistics on production or exports of a particular commodity are not available, estimated figures, or some other indication of the importance of production and exports compared with imports, are given if possible. Exports under lend-lease are included in the statistics on United States exports. If exports under lend-lease were a significant part of the total exports, this fact is indicated in footnotes to the tables. Statistics on imports are shown by countries where there are two or more suppliers of some importance.

All import values given in the summaries are foreign value, i.e., values in the country of exportation; these values do not include transportation costs or certain other charges incidental to the delivery of the commodity to the United States, nor, of course, do they include duties. Therefore, these values are not strictly comparable with the values shown for United States production, which are usually the sales value of the product at the place of production in the United States, or with the values for exports, which represent the actual selling price These including inland freight and other charges to the port of exportation. differences in the bases of the figures should be kept in mind when the value of imports is compared with the value of domestic production or exports.

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