Table 2.--Nonrubber footwear: U.S. rates of duty applicable to specified types under the
Tariff Act of 1930, during the period Jan. 1, 1946-Aug. 30, u963--Continued

:

of the

1/ Footwear with permanently attached skates or snowshoes are not covered by subpart 1(A) of schedule TSUS (see headnote 1(1) to that subpart) and therefore are not subject to this investigation (No. 332-56). 2/ Footwear with uppers of fiters and soles of india rubber or substitutes for rubber are currently included in item 700.60 and therefore are not covered by this investigation.

3/ If known as alpargatas, 17.5% ad val.

Table 2.--Nonrubber footwear:

U.0. rates of duty applicable to specified types under the
Tariff Act of 1930, during the period Jan. 1, 1946-Aug. 30, 1963

Table 3.--Apparent U.S. consumption of specified types of footwear, total and per capita, 3-year averages 1954-62, annual 1963-67

:

1Zoris were first sold in the United States in 1955; the figure given represents estimated apparent consumption in 1956.

2/ Data represent apparent consumption in 1954.

Data are estimated; annual apparent consumption of zoris increased several-fold in 1957-59--from about 11 million pairs in 1957 to nearly 70 million pairs in 1959.

4/ Data are an average of apparent consumption in 1958 and 1959. 5/ Estimated.

Less than a 0.05 pair.

Source: Compiled from the official statistics of the U.S. Department of Commerce, except as noted.

Table.--Nonrubber footwear:

U.S. production, imports for consumption, exports of domestic merchandise, and apparent consumption, 3-year averages 1954-62, annual 1963-67, January-August 1967, and January-August 1968

: Ratio of
: imports to
: consumption

1.000

:

:

pairs

pairs

:

pairs

pairs

Percent

3-year average: :

1954-56-------: 569,164 :

10,000 :

4,640 :

574,524 :

1957-59-------: 607,376 :

27,000 :

4,043 :

630,333 :

1960-62-------: 608,729 :

57,000 :

3,049 :

662,680 :

249

10

: 612,790 :

80,661 :

2,835 :

690,616.:

626,229:

95,991 :

2,491 :

719,729 :

13

1966-----1967--

641,696 :

101,746 :

2,737 :

740,705 :

14

: 599,964 :

133,259 :

2,217 :

731,006 :

18

:

:

:

:

:

1/ Data for 1954-63 are partly estimated. Data on zoris have been excluded from the import figures of this and subsequent tables, unless otherwise noted. Imports of zoris, chiefly from Japan, declined from an estimated 70 million pairs in 1959 to 32 million pairs in 1963, and then to 27 million pairs in 1967; the dutiable value of the 1967 imports averaged 11 cents per pair.

Source:

Compiled from official statistics of the U.S. Department of Commerce, except as noted.

Table 5.--Nonrubber footwear: Apparent U.S. consumption, by types, 1965-67, January-August 1967, and January-August 1968

:

1 Includes footwear for children and infants and footwear not specified by type.

Source: Estimated by the U.S. Tariff Commission from official statistics of the U.S. Department of Commerce.