in 1968, and 3 showed losses on such operations in 1969. None of the reporting concerns showed losses on their imported stainless-steel table flatware operations in 1967 or 1968; one reported a loss in 1969. tabulation below shows, for these reporting firms, net profit ratios on their sales of imported flatware and on domestically produced flatware; it also shows net profit ratios for all reporting producers on their

sales of domestically produced stainless-steel flatware.

1/ Data are for 6-month accounting periods.

2/ Data are for the full accounting year ending early in 1969 for one producer, and for 6-month accounting periods for 9 producers

For the reporting producers in the years 1967-69, the ratio of net profits to net sales of imported stainless-steel table flatware was within 1 percent of the profit-sales ratio on their domestic stainless-steel table flatware operations. For the 4 reporting concerns in 1967, sales of the

imported articles were equal to 19 percent of their sales of domestic output; for the 5 reporting in 1968, 12 percent, and for the 7 reporting in 1969, 16 percent. Imports by these firms accounted for 78 percent of the

value of imports by all U.S. producers during 1967-69. These companies also accounted for about a third of total U.S. sales of domestic merchandise in

1967, and about four-fifths in 1968 and 1969.

STATISTICAL APPENDIX

Note 1.--Where possible, the tables in this appendix were given the same numbers as they had in Appendix A to the Commission's report to the President on Investigation No. TEA-I-EX-3 under section 351(a)(3) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (TC Publication 217, September, 1967). Several new tables have been added to the appendix to this report; they are given the designations A, B, or C, following the number of the table to to which they most closely relate, i.e., Table 25B did not appear in the appendix to the Commission's 1967 report, but is closely related in subject matter to Table 25, which did appear in the last report. Table 26 did not appear in the Commission's 1967 report and consequently does not appear in this report.

Note 2.--For the sake of brevity, in the following tables the term "quota type" is used to describe knives, forks, and spoons, with stainless-steel handles, valued under 25 cents each, not over 10.2 inches in overall length, and the term "nonquota type" is used to describe other knives, forks, and spoons with stainless-steel handles.

Fable 1A.--U.S. rates of duty under the Tariff Schedules of the United States (TSUS)
on stainless-steel knives, forks, and spons, August 31, 1963-October 11, 1967 1/

The TSUS came into effect on Aug. 31, 1963.

Items

2/TSUS appendix items provide or provided for the imposition of tariff quotas on certain stainless-steel flatware. 927.53 and 927.54 were in effect from Aug. 31, 1963, to Oct. 31, 1965, and items 927.60, 927.61, and 927.62 became effective Nov. 1, 1965. Items 927.50, 927.51, and 927.52 have been in effect since Aug. 31, 1963. The initial tariff quotas specified in the appendix to the TSUS had been in effect since Nov. 1, 1959 (see table 2).

3/ Applicable to imports from countries or areas designated as Communist dominated or controlled.

Applicable to imports from all countries except those designated as Communist dominated or controlled and except imports from the Republic of the Philippines.

5/ Each set of 2 or more articles containing 1 or more articles of flatware, is dutiable at the rate of duty applicable to the

article in the set subject to the highest rate of duty.

6/ Applicable to imports from non-Communist (except the Philippines) and Communist countries after an aggregate quantity of 69 million single units of knives, forks, and spoons with stainless-steel handles, valued under 25 cents each, and not over 10.2 inches in over-all length had been entered in any 12-month period beginning Nov. 1 in any year from countries subject to the trade-agreement rates.

1/ Applicable to imports from other than designated Communist countries and the Republic of the Philippines after an aggregate quantity of 8 million single units of knives, forks, and spoons with stainless-steel handles, valued under 25 cents each, and not over 10.2 inches in over-all length, has been entered in the periods Nov. 1, 1965-Oct. 31, 1966, and Nov. 1, 1966Oct. 11, 1967, from countries subject to the trade-agreement rates.

8/ Applicable to imports from designated Communist countries after the quota has been filled by imports from countries subject to the trade-agreement rates.

2 These articles are not subject to quota.

10 Not applicable.