1/ Preliminary. 2/ Does not include mixtures containing phosphoric acid or potash. 3/ Includes "Ammonium nitrate mixtures containing 20% or more nitrogen." Factor applied to obtain nitrogen content-18%. Less than 500. 5/ Includes ammonium nitrate beginning January 1947. (See footnote 7.) Not separately classified prior to 1939. Includes such items as hoof meal, beet slop, leather meal, and rapeseed meal and for 1937-46 includes ammonium nitrate. Includes less than 500 short tons of cocoa-press cake (nitrogen content of 6 short tons), valued at 9 thousand dollars. Cocoa-press cake was not separately classified prior to 1940 and the classification was discontinued on September 25, 1943. Imports in 1940 were 15 thousand short tons, valued at 241 thousand dolin 1941 were 9 thousand short tons, valued at 145 thousand dollars, and in 1942 were 1 thousand short tons, valued at 10 thousand dollars. 9/Estimated. lars; The nitrogen content (percent) for each of the fertilizer materials is as follows: Ammonium sulfate, 20.6 percent; ammonium nitrate mixtures, 1943 to 1948, 33.0 percent; Calurea, 34.0 percent; castor bean pomace, 5.0 percent; manures, 2.0 percent; tankage, 7.5 percent; sodium nitrate, 16.0 percent; and nitrogenous materials, n.s.p.f., 8.0 percent. Source: Official statistics of the U. S. Department of Commerce, except as noted. UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION NITROGENOUS FERTILIZER MATERIALS Table 4.- Nitrogenous fertilizer materials: United States Preliminary. 2 Less than 500. 3/ Includes Austria 1938-43. Source: Official statistics of the U. S. Department of Commerce. SUMMARIES OF TARIFF INFORMATION NITROGENOUS FERTILIZER MATERIALS Table 5.- Nitrogenous fertilizer materials: United States UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION NITROGENOUS FERTILIZER MATERIALS Table 5.- Nitrogenous fertilizer materials: United States 1/ Includes Austria. 2/ Preliminary. 3/ Contains 20 percent or more nitrogen. No imports of ammonium nitrate containing less than 20 percent nitrogen. Source: Official statistics of the U. S. Department of Commerce. Note: There were no imports of calcium nitrate urea (Calurea) in 1946 and 1948, and no imports of castor-bean pomace in 1948. United States exports.--Exports of each of the various nitrogenous fertilizer materials herein considered are not separately reported. Total annual United States exports of nitrogen fertilizer materials, which consist chiefly of ammonium sulfate, averaged 220,000 short tons (with 34,000 short tons of contained nitrogen), valued at over 5 million dollars, in 1937-39 (see table 6). In 1946-48 exports (except for shipments to occupied territories) averaged about 220,000 short tons. Shipments under the Army Civilian Supply Program for occupied territories amounted to 530,000 tons in 1947 and to 641,000 tons in 1948 (data for 1946 are not available). As a result of these shipments to occupied territories, total exports have averaged much greater than in prewar years; they reached 865,000 tons in 1948 (with nitrogen content 259,000 tons), valued at 51 million dollars. The markets for United States exports have been diverse; Canada, the Philippine Republic, Spain, Egypt, the Netherlands, and France were the leading markets in 1937-39. In 1946-48, the leading markets (apart from the occupied areas, Japan, Germany, and formerly Korea) have been the Netherlands, Country SUMMARIES OF TARIFF INFORMATION NITROGENOUS FERTILIZER MATERIALS Table 6.- Nitrogenous Fertilizer Material: United States Includes 113 thousand short tons valued at 7,154 thousand dollars exported under Army Civilian Supply Program. 8/ Includes 17 thousand short tons valued at 1,349 thousand dollars to Portugal. 9 Includes 43 thousand short tons valued at 2,449 thousand dollars to Taiwan (Formosa), and 18 thousand short tons valued at 1,015 thousand dollars to Greece. Formosa was included with Japan prior to 1945. 10/ Includes 24 thousand short tons valued at 1,264 thousand dollars to Taiwan (Formosa). Formosa was included with Japan prior to 1945. Source: Official statistics of the U. S. Department of Commerce and Forei Trade Statistics Notes. * |