Synthetic resins and their raw materials / A survey of the types and uses of synthetic resins, the organization of the industry, and the trade in resins and raw materials, with particular references to factors essential to tariff consideration. Under the general provisions of section 332, title III, part II, Tariff act of 1930.

by United States Tariff Commission

Calendar year	Rate of duty	Quantity	Value	Unit value	Computed ad valorem rate
		Pounds			Percent
1918	15 percent + 2½ cents per pound	1,550	$2,008	$1.30	16.93
1919	do	3,170	4,587	1.45	16.73
1920	do	85,474	36,041	.422	20.93
1921	do	16,240	11,811	.727	18.43
1922	(1)	350,764	42,912	.122	46.27
1923	55 percent + 7 cents per pound2	245,119	30,328	.124	111.58
1924	(3)	662,938	49,380	.074	134.43
1925	40 percent + 7 cents per pound2	252,382	15,441	.061	154.41
1926	do	1,102	5,236	4.75	41.47
1927	(4)	2	16	8.00	40.88
1928-37		None

¹ 55 percent ad valorem and 7 cents per pound, effective Sept. 22, 1922.

² Ad valorem based on American selling price or United States value under acts of 1922 and 1930.

³ Ad valorem reduced to 40 percent, effective Sept. 22, 1924.

⁴ Duty reduced to 20 percent ad valorem and 3½ cents per pound, effective Nov. 30, 1927.

Source: Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States.

United States exports.

Exports of phenol have not been separately shown in official statistics since 1924. In that year they went chiefly to Panama, Japan, Cuba, and Mexico. Table [64] shows exports from 1918 to 1924, inclusive, as furnished by the Department of Commerce.

Table 64.—Phenol: United States exports, 1918-24