U.S. Import Statistics for Agricultural Commodities

This reference work presents six years (1981-86) of import data on agri culturally-related commodities of non-animal origin, including timber prod ucts. For each commodity, annual sta tistics are listed for the quantity imported: the free-alongside ship (f.a.s.) value; the cost insurance and freight (c.i.f.) value; and the import charges. Dates are aggregated by the country of origin, region of unloading, and method of transportation. Overall annual sum maries are also included.Import statistics were obtained from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bu reau of the Census, which collects data based on commodity descriptions in Tarriff Schedules of United States An notated (TSUSA), an official publica tion of the U.S. International Trade Commission. When the TSUSA de scription provides sufficient informa tion to identify the specific crop(s) that produced the product, data are grouped by crop along with the related com modity data. Over 300 crops are in cluded. A separate grouping is made for cases where the TSUSA description is too general foi identifying the crop.The book includes four indices: 1) an alphabetical listing of crops used in the import statistics together with related products; 2) a listing of non-crop spe cific agriculturally related products that are classified into end-use categories; 3) a listing for each country of all products exported to the U.S.; 4) a listing of the TSUSA commodity descriptions to gether with the crop(s) or end-use cate gory under which data for that commodity is categorized.