Table 25.-Pig and cast iron: U.S. production, imports, exports, and consumption, 1958-65

(Quantity in long tons; value in thousands of dollars)

1958----

:

:

Quantity

:

:51,031,168: 187,271 : 92,275: 51,127,085 : 1959--------: 53,759,000: 624,585 : 9,325 55,154,634 : 1960------ -: 59,376,000: 295,399 : 99,797 59,487,800 : 1961----- ----: 57,904,000: 336,768: 371,132: 58,747,587 : 1962----- : 58,605,400: 446,437: 137,839: 59,460,251 : 1963------ : 64,142,900 576,191: 62,638 64,900,660 : 1964------ -: 76,366,591: 657,564 157,193: 77,126,516 : 1965------ : 78,726,341: 787,585: 25,201:

0.4 1.1

.5

.6

.8

.9

.9

:

1.0

1/ Value estimated on the basis of the average value of shipments.

Source: Production and consumption compiled from official statistics of the U.S. Department of the Interior, except as noted; imports and exports compiled from official statistics of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Note.--Data shown above relate to TSUS items 607.15 and 607.18; however, virtually all imports enter under item 607.15.

PART II

APPROPRIATE PROVISIONS OF THE TARIFF SCHEDULES
OF THE UNITED STATES

In this part the appropriate pages of the Tariff Schedules of the United States covering steel mill products are set forth. All of part 2B of schedule 6 and appropriate provisions of part 3B and 3D are included.

A column has been added in long hand titled "A. V. E." For convenience in rate comparison, the ad valorem equivalent of specific and compound rates shown in "Rate of Duty" column 1 are indicated in this column. The ad valorem equivalents shown were computed on the basis of import values in 1964.

The ad valorem equivalents of the rates applicable to alloy iron or steel do not include the equivalent of that portion of the column 1 rate that reads "+ additional duties (see headnote 4)". Import data are not reported in a manner that permits such a computation; however, estimates of the ad valorem equivalents of the additional duties range from 0.2 percent to 4.3 percent depending on the particular steel product.

An asterisk preceding an A. V. E. indicates that the A. V. E.

shown is estimated, inasmuch as there have been no recent imports of the product described.

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TARIFF SCHEDULES OF THE UNITED STATES

SCHEDULE 6. METALS AND METAL PRODUCTS
Part 2. - Metals, Their Alloys, and Their Basic Shapes and Forms

This subpart covers Iron and steel, their
alloys, and their so-called basic shapes and forms,
and in addition covers Iron or steel waste and scrap.
2. Grades of Iron Steel and Ferroalloys.--For
the purposes of the tariff schedules, the following
terms have the meanings hereby assigned to them:

(a) Pig Iron (except vanadium or titanium pig
Iron) and cast iron: A ferrous product (not includ-
ing steel, as defined in (g) of this headnotel con-
taining, by weight, 1.9 percent or more of carbon,
and which may contain one or more alloy elements
within the respective weight limits specified below:
not over 6 percent manganese,
not over 15 percent phosphorus,
not over 8 percent silicon,
not over 30 percent chromium,
not over 40 percent tungsten,
not over 0.1 percent vanadium,
not over 0.1 percent titanium,
an aggregate of not over 10 percent

of other alloy elements.

Rates of Duty

1

2