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

¹ Preliminary.

Source: Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States.

Table 44.—Refined naphthalene (solidifying at or above 79° C): United States imports for consumption, in specified years, 1919-37

Calendar year	Rate of duty	Quantity		Value	Unit value	Computed ad valorem rate
		Pounds				Percent
1919	15 percent + 2½ cents per pound.	7,650		$384	$0.050	64.8
1920	do.	3,697,562		416,172	.112	37.2
1923	55 percent + 7 cents per pound	9,605		194	.020	401.6
1924	do.	4,549		1,147	.252	82.8
1925	do.
1926	40 percent + 7 cents per pound	424		125	.295	63.7
1927	do.	18,668		3,077	.165	82.5
1928	do.	27		6	.222	71.5
1929	do.	⎫	None
1930	do.	⎪
Jan. 1-June 17	do.	⎪
June 18-Dec. 31		⎬
1931	do.	⎪
1932	do.	⎪
1933	do.	⎭
1934	do.	66		6	.091	116.7
1935	do.1	99		31	.313	62.4
1936	20 percent + 3½ cents per pound2	30		20	.667	50.5
19373	do.2	5,055		1,085	.215	36.3

¹ From Germany. No imports under trade agreement rate.

² Belgo-Luxemburg trade agreement rate.

³ Preliminary.

Source: Foreign Commerce and Navigation of the United States.

Table [45] shows the principal sources of our imports of crude naphthalene in recent years. Germany was the principal source until 1936; the United Kingdom, previously the next most important source, was first in 1936 and 1937. In the last three years appreciable quantities have been received from Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union, hitherto unimportant sources.