1/ Includes items on the free list (136.1 million dollars); imports under the

336.5

dutiable schedules of the Tariff Act of 1930 imported free of duty from the Philippine Islands (72.7 million dollars), and imports of other items entered free of duty under special provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930 (2.3 million dollars).

NOTE: The above table does not include imports free of duty under bond for pro-
cessing, refining, and manufacture and export, amounting to 59.3 million
dollars.

NOTE: The figures given in the above table represent United States imports in 1939
of all products except for a comparatively few items with respect to which
imports in that year were abnormal. In such cases statistics of imports
in 1937 were substituted for statistics of imports in 1939. The net result
of these substitutions is that the total imports shown in the above table
as for 1939 are 30.9 million dollars greater than the actual imports in
that year.

Eighty-one percent of total imports in 1939 of items on which the United States has made concessions were imported from the United Kingdom and colonies, Canada, the Belgium-Luxemburg-Netherland Customs Union, and its overseas territories, Brazil, Cuba and France.

United Kingdom and Colonies.

Total imports from

the United Kingdom in 1939 amounted to 334.0 million dollars. Imports of concession items amounted to 321.2 million dollars, of which 109.9 million dollars were dutiable and 211.3 million dollars were free of duty.

Reductions of 36 to 50 percent were made on imports valued at 60.3 million dollars; reductions of 25 to 35 percent on imports valued at 22.2 million dollars and reductions of less than 25 percent on imports valued at 16.5 million dollars. Existing duties were bound on imports valued at 10.8 million dollars. A concession on whiskey the largest single dutiable import from the United Kingdom, accounted for over half of the imports in the 36 to 50 percent reduction category. Other important concessions on dutiable items were on woolens and worsteds, countable cotton cloths, linen goods, earthenware and chinaware, and certain types of machinery.

Among the most important free list items which were bound are crude rubber, tin bars, blocks, pigs, etc., and cocoa or cacao beans.

Canada. Imports from Canada in 1939 amounted to 323.3 million dollars. Imports of concession items amounted to 299.1 million dollars, of which 105.5 million dollars were dutiable and 193.6 million dollars were free of duty. Reductions of 36 to 50 percent were made on imports valued at 64.9 million dollars; reductions of 25 to 35 percent on imports valued at 11.5 million dollars and reductions of less than 25 percent on imports valued at 1.1 million dollars.' Existing duties were bound on items accounting for imports valued at 28.0 million dollars.

The principal dutiable items imported from Canada on which concessions were made were whiskey, cattle, fish, cheese, potatoes and other vegetables, blueberries, aluminum, nickel, Christmas trees, and certain kinds of lumber..

Standard newsprint paper accounted for more than half of the duty free imports from Canada which were bound on the free list. Wood pulp was also an important free list concession item.

Benelux. The total imports in 1939 from Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg (The Customs Union of Benelux) and the overseas territories of

UNITED STATES IMPORTS IN 1939, TOTAL AND BY THE COUNTRIES
PARTICIPATING IN THE GENEVA NEGOTIATIONS, SHOWING KIND

1/ Includes items on the free list (136,107 thousand dollars); imports under the dutiable schedules of the Tariff Act of 1930 imported free of duty from the Philippine Islands (72,714 thousand dollars); and imports of other items entered free of duty under special provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930 (2,334 thousand dollars).

Note:

The above table does not include imports free of duty under bond for processing, refining, and manufacture and export, amounting to 59,278 thousand dollars.

Not The figures given in the above table represent US imports in 1939 of all products except for a comparatively few items with respect to which imports in that year were abnormal. In such cases statistics of imports in 1937 were substituted for statistics of imports in 1939. The net result of these substitutions is that the total imports shown in the above table as for 1939 are 30,947 thousand dollars greater than the actual imports in that year.

Belgium and the Netherlands were valued at 204.8 million dollars. Imports of concession items amounted to 190.7 million dollars, of which dutiable imports accounted for 78.1 million dollars and free imports accounted for 112.6 million dollars. Reductions of 36 to 50 percent were made on imports valued at 28.9 million dollars; reductions of 25 to 35 percent on 9.1 million dollars; reductions of less than 25 percent on 5.0 million dollars. Existing duties were bound on imports valued at 35.1 million dollars.

Among the principal imports of dutiable concession items in 1939 from Benelux were diamonds cut but not set, flower bulbs, gelatine, various types of glass, tobacco and bauxite.

Crude rubber, tea, tapioca, and palm oil accounted for more than half of the free list imports on which concessions were made.

Brazil. Total imports into the United States from Brazil in 1939 were valued at 106.3 million dollars. Concession items accounted for 100.2 million dollars of the total. Of the concession items, dutiable imports were valued at 7.1 million dollars and free imports at 93.1 million dollars. Reductions in duty of 36 to 50 percent were made on imports valued at 3.0 million dollars. Bindings of present duties accounted for virtually the remainder of the dutiable imports on which concessions were made.

The principal dutiable imports on which concessions were made are Brazil nuts and castor beans. Coffee, carnauba wax, cocoa beans, oiticica oil, and babas su nuts accounted for the bulk of imports in 1939 of items which were bound on the free list.

Cuba. Total imports from Cuba into the United States in 1939 were valued at 101 million dollars. Concession items accounted for 98 million dollars of this amount. Concession items consisted of dutiable imports valued at 92.4 million dollars and free imports valued at 5.6 million dollars. Duty reductions of 36 to 50 percent were made on imports valued at 0.3 million dollars. Reductions of duty of 25 to 35 percent were made on imports valued at 74.4 million dollars. A reduction of 25 percent on sugar accounted for nearly all of this amount. Imports on which reductions of less than 25 percent were made were valued at 1.4 million dollars. Bindings of the present duties were made on imports valued at 16.3 million dollars. Dutiable imports on which concessions were made include tobacco, inedible