SUMMARIES OF TARIFF INFORMATION MANUSCRIPTS, N.S.P.F. Tariff Status Par. 1714. Manuscripts, not specially provided for, which were free of duty under the Tariff Act of 1922, are also free of duty under the Tariff Act of 1930. Their duty-free status was bound in the trade agreement with the United Kingdom, effective January 1939, and in the Geneva agreement. Trade Statistics Table 1.- Manuscripts, n.s.p.f.: United States imports for consumption, United Kingdom $136,129 $155,778 $157,376 $23,935 $280,086 $67,451 $64,895 11,898 7,398 11,126 Germany 2/ 6,408 451 Palestine 3/ 3/ Includes Trans-Jordan 1937-47. There were no imports from Trans-Jordan in 1948, the first year for which separate statistics for that country were reported. Source: Official statistics of the U. S. Department of Commerce. Note. Statistics on United States production and exports of manuscripts are not available. Comment Manuscripts are author's copies of their work, in handwriting or typewritten form, from which the printed copies are made. They also include office records, old scrolls on parchment or vellum, and ancient writings on clay tablets or on stone. This summary covers such manuscripts whether or not prepared for publication. It does not include mimeographed, multigraphed, or otherwise reproduced material, whether or not these are to be printed, lithographed, or otherwise reproduced or further processed. Statistics on United States production and exports of manuscripts are not available, but production is many times larger than imports. United States imports of manuscripts averaged about $175,000 a year during 1937-39. Imports were small during the war, but in 1946 were valued at over $440,000. In 1947-48 imports averaged $129,000 annually. The United Kingdom and Canada have been the chief sources of imports. It is known that a large but indeterminable number of manuscripts enter the United States through the mails, and it is believed that the bulk of such entries are not included in the import figures shown in table 1. * SUMMARIES OF TARIFF INFORMATION MARROW, CRUDE (PAR. 1715) Tariff Status Par. 1715. Crude marrow was free of duty under the Tariff Act of 1922 and is free of duty also under the Tariff Act of 1930. Argentina Australia Brazil Chile Trade Statistics Table 1.- Marrow, crude: United States imports for consumption, Source: Official statistics of the U. S. Department of Commerce. 877032 O 50- 14 MARROW, CRUDE Comment Crude bone marrow is classed as yellow or red. The yellow is richer in fats and is used to some extent in the manufacture of pomades, but its principal use is as a raw material for tallow. Red bone marrow is also used for tallow, and to some extent medicinally as an old-fashioned remendy in the treatment of anemia. It is, however, usually dried for medicinal use. Marrow as such is no longer an important article of commerce except when prices of oils and fats are relatively high; the fats normally are rendered from the bones in the country of origin. There are no data available on domestic production, and United States exports, if any, are not separately reported. United States imports were very small in the early 1930's, and there were no imports in the period 1936-44. In 1948 imports amounted to 22,000 pounds, valued at $1,900. The principal sources of United States imports in the 1945-48 period were Australia, and countries in South America, including Argentina, Brazil and Chile. The decline in average unit values of imports from 88 cents a pound in 1946 to 34 cents in 1947 and to the very low figure of less than 9 cents in 1948 may have resulted in part from declining foreign prices, but the principal reason for the sharp decline, particularly in 1948, is probably a difference in the kinds of marrow imported. The latter entries were probably raw, unselected marrow, whereas in the earlier years the bulk of the imports was probably well graded dried marrow. SUMMARIES OF TARIFF INFORMATION WOOD PULP Tariff Status Par. 1716. Wood pulp of all kinds, which was free of duty under the Tariff Act of 1922, is free of duty also under the Tariff Act of 1930. Sulphate wood pulp, bleached and unbleached, and sulphite wood pulp, unbleached, are bound free in the trade agreement with Sweden, effective August 1935; bleached and unbleached mechanically ground and soda pulp and bleached sulphite pulp were bound free in the first trade agreement with Canada, effective January 1936; the dutyfree status of all kinds of wood pulp was bound in the trade agreement with Finland, effective November 1936, and similar binding of all kinds of wood pulp was thereafter included in the second trade agreement with Canada, and in the Geneva agreement. The duty-free status of chemical wood pulp, unbleached or bleached (except soda pulp) was bound in the Annecy agreement, but this binding was not made effective on January 1, 1950. Trade Statistics Table 1.- Wood pulp: United States production, exports, and imports, 1 Preliminary, except for production. 2/ Includes 180 thousand tons, valued at 11,118 thousand dollars, exported under lend-lease. 3/ Not available. Source: Official statistics of the U. S. Department of Commerce, except production for sale, which is based on data of United States Pulp Producers' Association. 80.0 1113.2 155.3 179.4 |