UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION MISCELLANEOUS UNMANUFACTURED ANIMAL HAIR (PAR. 1688) Table 3.- Hair waste and scrap hair 1/: United States exports of domestic merchandise, by principal markets, in specified years, 2/ Preliminary. 3/ Less than $500. 45 32 1 1 3/ 2 11 4 13 2832 54 4 4 3 3 117 152 19 12 5 11 36 Not separately classified in export statistics prior to 1941. Source: Official statistics of the U. S. Department of Commerce. SUMMARIES OF TARIFF INFORMATION HIDE CUTTINGS, RAW, WITH OR WITHOUT HAIR, AND ALL OTHER GLUE STOCK, EXCEPT OSSEIN Tariff Status Par. 1689. Hide cuttings, raw, with or without hair, and all other glue stock (other than ossein), which were free of duty under the Tariff Act of 1922, are free of duty also under the Tariff Act of 1930. The duty-free status of these products was bound in the Geneva agreement. Trade Statistics Table 1.- Hide cuttings, raw, with or without hair, and all other glue Table continued on following page. See footnotes at end of table. UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION HIDE CUTTINGS, RAW, WITH OR WITHOUT HAIR, AND ALL OTHER (PAR. 1689) Table 1.-Hide cuttings, raw, with or without hair, and all other glue 1/ Preliminary. .045 .068 .049 .026 .046 .054 .047 2/ Includes Burma in 1937 and Pakistan in 1937 to 1947. There were no imports from Pakistan in 1948, the first year for which separate statistics for that country were reported. 3/ Includes 1,704 thousand pounds, valued at 225 thousand dollars, from Colombia. Less than $500. 5/ Calculated on the exact (i.e., unrounded figures). Source: Official statistics of the U. S. Department of Commerce. Note.- Statistics on domestic production are not available, but it is estimated that domestic production ranged between 800 and 900 million pounds annually during the period 1943-47. Exports are not separately classified; it is believed that exports have been negligible or nil. SUMMARIES OF TARIFF INFORMATION HIDE CUTTINGS, RAW, WITH OR WITHOUT HAIR, AND ALL OTHER (PAR. 1689) Comment This summary on hide cuttings, raw, with or without hair, and all other glue stock, except ossein (see separate summary on ossein, duty-free under par. 1689) covers raw materials used in the manufacture of animal glue and gelatin made from skins. However, the phrase "all other glue stock" as used in this instance does not cover raw materials used in the manufacture of glue and gelatin processed from bones, or used in the manufacture of fish glue; these raw materials (also dutyfree) are covered in separate summaries on paragraphs 1627 and 1678, respectively. Hide cuttings and other glue stock used in the manufacture of animal glue and gelatin (commonly referred to as hide glue and skin gelatin) are waste products of the packing and tanning industries, and are marketed 1/ principally as splits, trimmings, cuttings, fleshings, and shavings either in the green, salted, limed, or dry state. The largest quantities of these materials are obtained from animals of the bovine species, considerably less quantities from swine, and relatively small quantities from rabbits. In general, calf pieces are used principally--and pigskin entirely--in the manufacture of gelatin. Kip and cattle pieces, and rabbit skin (or "coney") are used in the manufacture of glue. Statistics on United States production of the materials covered by this summary are not available. It is estimated that between 800 and 900 million pounds of these domestically produced materials were converted into glue and gelatin annually during the period 1937-47. It is also estimated that in those years domestic sources accounted for approximately 95 percent of the total United States consumption of the materials covered by this summary. Statistics on domestic exports of the materials here discussed are not available, but exports probably have been negligible or nil. In the 3 years 1937-39, annual imports ranged between 13.7 million pounds, with an average foreign value of 6.8 cents per pound, and 25 million pounds, valued at 4.5 cents per pound. During the war imports increased from 14.8 million pounds, with an average foreign value of 5 cents per pound, in 1940 to 39.8 million pounds, valued at 4 cents per pound, in 1945. In the period 1946-48 imports declined from 41.3 million pounds, with an average foreign value of 4.6 cents per pound, in 1946 to 21.7 million pounds, valued at 4.7 cents per pound, in 1948. Before the war imports were supplied principally by the United Kingdom, Canada, and India. During and since the war Canada has supplied about half of the imports, and Argentina--the second largest source-has supplied about a fifth. Western Hemisphere sources, as a whole, have supplied most of the United States imports in recent years; imports supplied by Europe (principally from the United Kingdom), which consist of specially high-grade material, have declined both absolutely and relatively, in comparison with prewar years. Since the materials imported from European countries are generally much higher in unit value than those imported from most other sources, the decrease in imports from these countries largely accounts for the fact that the average unit value of imports in postwar years has not increased commensurately with the general advance which has taken place in the prices of glue stock. An appreciable part of these raw materials is converted into glue and gelatin by packing companies producing the raw materials. UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION OSSEIN Tariff Status Par. 1689. Ossein, which was free of duty under the Tariff Act of 1922, is free of duty also under the Tariff Act of 1930. Its duty-free status was bound in the trade agreement with Belgium, effective May 1935, and in the Geneva agreement. Trade Statistics Table 1.- Ossein: United States imports for consumption, by principal Source: Official statistics of the U. S. Department of Commerce. Note. Statistics on United States production are not available; production is estimated to have ranged between 5 and 10 million pounds annually in 1943-47 (see |