Table 3. U.S. Trade With Principal Countries of Eastern Europe, 1961, 266 Table 3. U.S. Trade With Principal Countries of Eastern Europe, 1961, 1962, and January-March 1963-Continued [Thousands of dollars] Commodity 1961 1962 Jan.-Mar. TRADE WITH U.S.S.R.-Continued 27 1 Excludes "special category" exports. 2 Less than $500. Commodity data are reported on the basis of imports for consumption. Includes an estimate of low-value shipments $250 or less each on informal entry shipments and under $100 each on formal entry shipments and on warehouse withdrawals. VI Supplementary Trade Tables A. U.S. Exports and Imports by Areas, 1956-62, and January-March 1963 C. U.S. Exports to Eastern Europe by Principal Commodities, 1960–62 [Millions of dollars] 1 Figures for 1956-62 exclude "special category" exports which, for security reasons, may not be reported by destination. Data for 1956-60 have been adjusted, however, to include aviation fuel and lubricating oils which were removed from "special category" in 1960. Turkey is included with Western Europe and excluded from Western Asia. Includes European possessions in the Western Hemisphere, Canal Zone, Gibraltar, and islands in the Mediterranean, Australia, New Zealand, and other Oceania. Estimated total which includes adjustments for changes in statistical coverage resulting from the shift to new tabulating procedures during the year. Area figures, only partially adjusted, overstate imports in 1958 by approximately $33 million. Consists mainly of uranium shipments for which country of origin detail are not available for security reasons. General Note: Data in this table have been adjusted, for all periods shown, to include imports of uranium ore and export of uranium and other nuclear materials. Table B. U.S. Exports To and Imports From Countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Bloc in Asia, 1956-62, and January-March 1963 [Thousands of dollars] 2 Less than $500. Figures shown include printed matter under general license and shipments to diplomatic missions of friendly foreign countries NOTE.-Exports are shown by country of destination. Imports are credited to the country in which the merchandise was originally produced, not necessarily the country from which purchases and shipments were made. General imports represent merchandise entered immediately upon arrival into merchandising or consumption channels plus commodities entered into bonded customs warehouses for storage. United States exports to North Korea were embargoed July 1950, and those to Communist China, Manchuria, and Outer Mongolia were embargoed the following December. On Mar. 1, 1951, general export licenses to Eastern European countries were revoked and the requirement of prior approval by license was extended to cover all exports to this area. On July 26, 1954, exports to North Vietnam were embargoed. Since mid-1954 the policy with respect to exports of nonstrategic goods to Eastern European countries has been liberalized to some extent. In particular, a less restrictive policy with respect to Poland has been pursued since August 1957. Pursuant to the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, benefits of trade agreement tariff concessions were withdrawn from the U.S.S.R. and its satellites and an embargo was imposed on the importation of certain furs from China and the U.S.S.R. On Apr. 26, 1956, a general license, GLSA, was established authorizing the exportation without a validated license of certain commodities to Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Outer Mongolia, Poland, Rumania, and the U.S.S.R. except the Maritime Province. Controls over imports of Chinese and North Korean merchandise are exercised by the Treasury Department under Foreign Assets Control Regulations issued Dec. 17, 1950. Under these regulations the importation of Chinese goods is prohibited without license by the Treasury Department, and it is contrary to the present policy of that agency to license such imports. Some items of Chinese origin, however, continue to appear in the statistical records of U.S. imports. For example, dutiable Chinese merchandise brought into the United States and stored in bonded customs warehouses prior to the effective date of the import control regulations is counted in import for consumption statistics at the time of withdrawal from warehouse. Duty-free merchandise permitted entry for customs inspection but subsequently rejected when determined to be of Chinese origin, may also be counted in the statistics. The figures may also include imports licensed to avoid undue hardship to firms and individuals who acquired the Chinese merchandise in good faith and imports, from third countries, of Chinese products in which all Chinese interests had ceased by Dec. 17, 1950. In U.S. import statistics, goods of Chinese origin are credited to China regardless of the country from which they came. Table C. U.S. Exports to Eastern Europe by Principal Commodities, 1960, 1961, and 1962 Total. Dairy products. Barley, except pearl barley. 193,853 133,324 125, 136 155, 413 90, 662 1C9. 883 38, 440 42, 662 15, 253 481 Grain sorghums. 4,872 445 Rice, milled. 3, 003 3,003 NOTE.-Figures exclude "special category" exports which, for security reasons, may not be reported by destination. |