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Table 5 ATPA 2001 Report

Table 5

U.S. Imports for Consumption from ATPA Beneficiary Countries by Duty Treatment, 1991-2000

(customs value, millions of dollars)
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________     Item 1991  1992  1993  1994   1995  1996   1997  1998 1999 2000
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________     Total 4969.5 5058.7 5282.3 5879.5 6968.7 7867.6 8673.6 8361.0 9830.2 11117.2
 
NTR Duty-Free (1) 2084.5 2022.0 2006.9 2464.4 2742.6 2944.7 4010.8 3701.2 4332.2 4302.3
Subject to Duty 2885.0 3036.7 3275.4 3415.1 4226.2 4922.9 4662.7 4659.9 5498.1 6815.0
 Entered Duty-Free 626.9 763.7 953.0 1156.7 1336.4 1543.9 1789.0 1998.6 2064.4 2320.6
   GSP 491.7 547.1 445.9 337.9 227.2 126.6 254.3 190.0 125.3 145.5
   ATPA --  90.6 384.0 662.2 915.4 1244.8 1317.0 1617.4 1726.1 1955.0
   HTS 9802 (806/807) 103.5 122.3 121.8 155.2 172.2 130.4 165.0 158.6 147.0 136.1
   Special Provisions 31.7 3.8 1.3 1.4 21.7 42.0 52.7 32.6 65.9 84.0
 Dutiable 2258.1 2273.0 2322.4 2258.4 2889.7 3379.0 2873.7 2661.2 3433.7 4494.4
   ATPA Dutied (2) --  6.5 17.4 20.4 23.2 25.2 27.2 26.2 23.7 26.5
Share Dutiable 45.4 44.9 44.0 38.4 41.5 42.9 33.1 31.8 34.9 40.4
Calculated Duty (3) 74.0 79.1 77.0 85.5 86.3 87.1 95.3 105.0 123.3 142.4
Ad Valorem Duty Rate 3.3 3.5 3.3 3.8 3.0 2.6 3.3 3.9 3.6 3.2
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________            (2) ATPA beneficiaries are eligible for reduced duties on certain leather items.
           (3) Reported dutiable value and calculated duty were adjusted to account for the value of U.S. content
                (which is not subject to duty) of items imported under tariff provisions HTS 9802.00.60 and 9802.00.80.
               
Data Source: Compiled from the official statistics of the U.S. Dept. of Commerce.
Minor adjustments to official statistics were made to correct for cases of misreporting.
Source: Trade and Employment Effects of the Andean Trade Preference Act (2001), by Robert C. Shelburne