Table 2.--Stainless-steel table flatware: Average ad valorem equivalents of the trade-agreement and the over-quota rates of duty in effect in 1965 and in 1966, based on imports in 1965 and 1966, respectively, by type of flatware, and by selected sources

Average ad valorem equivalents of the rates of duty based on imports from--
All countries,

:

Description

in-

:

1966

:

Japan,
1965

in-

:

1966

: Cents each; : Cents each; :

: percent : percent :

:

:

:

:

:

ad valorem : ad valorem : Percent: Percent: Percent: Percent: Percent: Percent: Percent: Percent

3/ The great bulk of imports in both years consisted of stainless-steel flatware with handles of chrome steel.

Source: Compiled from official statistics of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Table 3.--Stainless-steel table flatware: U.S. raten of duty under the Tariff Act of 1930
(old schedule, superseded Aug. 31, 1963)

Par. 339:

Table, household, kitchen, and hospital utensils,
and hollow or flat ware, not specially provided :
for: ** composed wholly or in chief' value
of copper, brass, steel, or other base metal,
not plated with platinum, old, or silver,
and not specially provided for:
Table spoons wholly of metal and in chief value
of stainless steel, not over 10.2 Inches in
overall length and valued at less than $3 per
dozen pieces.

Par. 355:

Table, butchers', carving, cooks', hunting,

kitchen, bread, cake, pic, slicing, cigar,
butter, vegetable, fruit, cheese, canning,
fish, carpenters' bench, curriers', drawing,
farriers', fleshing, hay, sugar-beet,
beet-topping, tanners', plumbers', painters',
palette, artists', shoe, and similar knives,
forks, and steels, and cleavers, all the
foregoing, finished or unfinished, not
specially provided for * * * :

Not specially designed for other than household,
kitchen, or butchers' use:

Table knives and forks, wholly of metal and
in chief value of stainless steel, not over
10.2 inches in overall length and valued at
less than $3 per dozen pieces, with
handles of--

:

:

:

::

:

:

Steel, other than austenitic:

Less than 4 inches in length, exclusive
of handle.

24 + 45% : 24 + 35%

:

:

: 84 + 45%

: 24+ 17-1/2%

: 14+ 17-1/2 3/

: Jan. 1, 1939; United Kingdom.

: Jan. 1, 1948.

: July 7, 1951.

: 34 + 67-1/2% 3: Nov. 1, 1959. 3/

: 84 + 35%

: 84 + 35% 4/

: Jan. 1, 1939; United Kingdan. : Jan. 1, 1948.

:44 +17-172% 3/: Oct. 1, 1951.

: 124 + 67-1/23/: Nov. 1, 1959. 3/

inches in length or over, exclusive of
handle.

: 84 + 45%

: 44 + 25%

: 44 + 25% 4/

:

:44 + 17-172% 3/

:

: 124 + 67-1/2

: Nov. 1, 1959. 3/

: Jan. 1, 1939; United Kingdom.

: Jan. 1, 1948.

: Oct. 1, 1951.
3/: Nov. 1, 1959. 3/

1/ Applicable to the products of Communist-dominated or Communist-controlled countries or areas which are designated as such by the President.

2/ General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, unless otherwise indicated.

1/ Pursuant to Presidential Proclamation No. 3323, dated Oct. 20, 1959, the higher of the 2 rates to which this footnote is attached was made applicable during any 12-month period beginning Nov. 1, 1959, and in each subsequent year, after a total aggregate quantity of 69 million single units of table spoons described under par. 339, and of table knives and table forks described under par. 355, had been entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption; until the total aggregate quantity of the designated units had been entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, during any 12-month period designated above, the lower rate of duty was applicable. /Bound.

Note.--Stainless-steel table flatware, wholly of metal and in chief value of stainless steel, over 10.2 inches in overall length or valued at $3 or more per dozen pieces (nonquota-type flatware), was dutiable at the same rates of duty as the quota-type flatware entered within the que limits.

Table 4.--Stainless-steel table flatware: Production and sales by U.S. manufacturers, U.S. imports for consumption, and apparent consumption, 1951-68, January-September 1968, and January-September 1969

:

:

:

1967 7

1968 7--Jan.-Sept.: 1968 7/ 1969

7/

1/ Partly estimated from sales data for a few manufacturers.

2/ Includes an estimate for a small amount of imports in the years 1953-58.
3/ Sales of domestically produced flatware plus imports less exports.
Not available.

The high figure for imports in 1960 is attributable primarily to the entry in that year of most of the imports permissible within the quota in the first and second quota years. As a result, the figures for apparent consumption and the ratios of imports to apparent consumption and to production for 1960 and 1961 are of only qualified significance.

6/ Data for 1963 and 1964 are revised. Data do not include imports in sets of nonquota-type stainless-steel table flatware for the period Aug. 31, 1963 through December 31, 1967, because they were not reported separately under the TSUS. Such imports are known to be negligible. Data on U.S. production and sales exclude data for 4 manufactures who did not submit questionnaires.

8/ Available data are known to be inaccurate. It is estimated that imports in 1967 were at least as large as they were in 1966.

9/ Preliminary.

Source: Compiled from data submitted to the U.S. Tariff Commission by U,S. producers and importers of stainless-steel table flatware, and from official statistics of the U.S, Department of Commerce.

Table 5.--Table flatware: U.S. apparent consumption, 1 by type, 1958-59, 1961-66, 1968, January-September 1968, and January-September 1969

1/ U.S. producers' sales plus imports. Data on the quantity of exports, known to be small, are not separately reported in official statistics. All data except those on silver-plated and stainless-steel flatware contain estimates. For apparent consumption of stainless-steel table flatware, taking exports into account, see table 4.

2/ Data exceed those in table 4 by the amount of exports which were small in most years.

3/ Includes consumption of an estimated 1 million dozen pieces of flatware with handles of "other materials" not separately reported in official statistics.

4/ Not available.

5/ Excludes data for 4 manufacturers who did not submit questionnaires.

Source: Compiled from official statistics of the U.S. Department of Commerce and from data submitted to the U,S. Tariff Commission by U.S, producers of stainless-steel table flatware.