CONTENTS

Introductory:Page
Reference to files [ 1 ]
Rates of duty [ 1 ]
History of investigation [ 1 ]
Scope of investigation [ 2 ]
Information obtained in the investigation:
Domestic production [ 2 ]
Kinds of hats produced [ 3 ]
Organization [ 3 ]
Labor conditions [ 3 ]
Imports [ 4 ]
Effect of imports [ 6 ]
Principal competing country [ 7 ]
Foreign production—
Types of hats produced [ 8 ]
Organization [ 8 ]
Working hours and wages [ 8 ]
Costs of production—
Methods of obtaining cost data [ 9 ]
Description of cost items—
Material [ 9 ]
Labor [ 9 ]
Overhead [ 9 ]
Selling expense—
(a) Domestic [ 9 ]
(b) Foreign [ 9 ]
Tables showing cost comparisons [10 ]
Competitive conditions—
Transportation and marketing costs [11 ]
Formal statement of conclusions [11 ]
Summary of conclusions [13 ]
Separate statement of Commissioner Costigan, in part concurring and in part dissenting, in the investigation of men's sewed straw hats:
Both higher and lower duties indicated by the commission's cost figures [15 ]
Determining the dividing line for tariff purposes between higher and lower priced hats [15 ]
Some omissions from and doubtful features in the commission's report [16 ]
Representativeness of samples [16 ]
Importers' selling expenses omitted [17 ]
Deficiencies in comparative overhead data [18 ]
Appendix:
Proclamation by the President [21 ]

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