Table 11.--Benzenoid medicinals and pharmaceuticals: U.S. general imports entered under Schedule 4, Part 1C, TSUS, showing competitive status 1/, 1967--Continued 1 1 2 Tocopherol---- Lorenzini vitamin tablets-. Menadione--- Menadione sodium bisulfite (85% feed grade )----- Riboflavin--- Total, vitamins-- 1, 2, 3, 4 All other benzenoid medicinal chemicals. Total----- ----quantity- 29 632 16,229 14,823 790 2,833 66 441 11,460 110 47,413 242 4,580,586 --invoice value--$11,934,925 1/ Competitive status of imports valued for duty purposes: Benzenoid flavor and perfume materials Imports of benzenoid flavor and perfume materials that were entered under Part 1C in 1967 are shown in table 12. Imports in 1967, which consisted mostly of "competitive" items (duty based on "American selling price"), totaled 1.7 million pounds, with an invoice value of $2.8 million. Imports in 1966 amounted to 2.6 million pounds, valued at $4.0 million, and in 1965 to 1.9 million pounds, valued at $2.5 million. The decrease in the volume of imports in 1967 from those in 1966 is due principally to the decrease in imports of saccharin and vanillin. In terms of quantity, Canada and Japan were the principal sources of U.S. imports of these materials as a group; smaller quantities came from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway, West Germany, Korea, France, and Sweden. In this group the two most important items imported in 1967 were saccharin and vanillin. Imports of all forms of saccharin in 1967 totaled 685,000 pounds, compared with 756,000 pounds in 1966; imports in 1967 came principally from Japan. Imports of vanillin, mostly of the lignin type, in 1967 amounted to 762,000 pounds, compared with 1,458,000 pounds in 1966; Canada was the chief source of vanillin derived from lignin. le 12.--Benzenoid flavor and perfume materials: U.S. general imports entered under Schedule 4, Part 1C, TSUS, showing competitive status 1/, 1967 Benzyl salicylate---- 2 1 4-tert-Butyl-2,6-dimethyl-3,5-dinitroacetophenone 918 (Musk ketone) 3 6-tert-Butyl-1,1-dimethyl-4-indanylmethyl ketone 26,849 (Celestolide)----. 1 -- 1 1 1 1 1 6-tert-Butyl-3-methyl-2,4-dinitroanisole (Musk ambrette)- Butylquinoline--- 5-tert-Butyl-2,4,6-trinitro-m-xylene (Musk xylol). Centifol----- Cinnamic anhydride---- 10,832 66,910 220 127,000 7 4 Cinnamyl alcohol-- 1 110 Coumarin- 2 p-Cresyl caprylate--- 3,526 2 1 2',4'-Dimethylacetophenone 7 Dimethylbenzylcarbinyl acetate-- Dimethylhydroquinone-- a,a-Dimethylphenethyl alcohol (Dimethyl benzyl Ethyl-a,ẞ-epoxy-B-methylhydrocinnamate (Aldehyde Frambinone (Oxanone). Hexyl salicylate Hydratropic aldehyde dimethylacetal Isobutylbenzyl carbinbol--- Isobutyldimethyl anthranilate- 2-Isobutylquinoline-- Isopentyl salicylate--- p-Isopropylbenzaldehyde (Cuminaldehyde)~~ 3-(p-Isopropylphenyl)propionaldehyde (Cuminyl acetaldehyde)--Isopropylquinoline--- 23 56 11 110 66 17,598 3,900 150 131 5 410 77 10 160 5 13 121 2-Methoxynaphthalene (Methyl R-naphthyl ether) 840 See footnotes at end of table. Table 12.--Benzenoid flavor and perfume materials: U.S. general imports entered under Schedule 4, Part 1C, TSUS, showing competitive status 1/, 1967--Continued 1. 2. 3. status of imports valued for duty purposes: Competitive - duty based on American Selling Price. Noncompetitive duty based on export value. All other finished benzenoid_products Imports in 1967 of all other finished benzenoid products that were entered under Part 1C are shown in table 13. In 1967, imports of products in this miscellaneous group, which consisted principally of "competitive" items, totaled 25.3 million pounds, valued at $13.3 million (invoice value). Imports of finished benzenoid products amounted to 25.9 million pounds, valued at $14.4 million, in 1966 and to 13.6 million pounds, valued at $8.3 million, in 1965. In 1967, as in earlier years, the most important class of items in this group was the synthetic resins. Imports of synthetic resins amounted to 13.3 million pounds in 1967, compared with 17.4 million pounds in 1966 and 9.2 million pounds in 1965. West Germany, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands were the principal sources of imports of resins in 1967; smaller quantities came from Denmark, Italy, Sweden, France, Switzerland, and Ireland. In terms of quantity, 81.1 percent of the imports of synthetic resins in 1967 were "competitive". Imports of pesticides, the next most important class of items in this group, amounted to 6.5 million pounds in 1967, compared with 3.3 million pounds in 1966 and 1.6 million pounds in 1965. The 1967 imports, which were chiefly "competitive", came principally from the United Kingdom, France, West Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, and New Zealand. Of the remaining classes, imports of plasticizers totaled 2.1 million pounds in 1967, compared with 2.3 million pounds in 1966 and 392,000 pounds in 1965. Imports of plasticizers were mostly "competitive" and came principally from Belgium, Japan, and Canada. Imports of textile assistants totaled 1.5 million pounds in 1967, compared with 970,000 pounds in 1966 and 880,000 pounds in 1965. Imports of textile assistants were mostly "noncompetitive" and came principally from West Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Imports of surface coatings amounted to 602,000 pounds in 1967, compared with 517,000 pounds in 1966. Imports of these products were chiefly "noncompetitive" and came principally from West Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Canada. Imports of synthetic tanning materials amounted to 317,000 pounds in 1967, compared with 328,000 pounds in 1966. Imports of such materials were principally "competitive"; Switzerland and West Germany were the principal suppliers. In 1967, imports of photographic chemicals amounted to 160,000 pounds, compared with 221,000 pounds in 1966. Imports of photographic chemicals in 1967 were almost all "noncompetitive"; Belgium, West Germany, the United Kingdom, and Japan were the principal suppliers. |