291 



TSUS "BASKET" CATEGORIES WHICH MAY INCLUDE WHALE MEATS, 1970 



Quantity 



Item Articles (basket category) (pounds) Value 



106.7000 Containing whale meat 691,913 5167,428 



196.7500 .do 677,467 279,037 



107 7000 do 4,975,429 1,265,621 



184 5510 do 48,126,380 8,744,562 



1845530 do -- 502,984,000 37,712,548 



184.5540 do 948,000 58,121 



Total 558,403,189 48,227,317 



TSUS "BASKET" CATEGORIES WHICH MAY INCLUDE SEALSKIN, 1970 



Quantity 



Item and article (pounds) Value 



123.0C85- Containing sealskins -.- - $133,277 



124.1060— Containing sealskins... -- ^'^'^il 



124.4000— Containing sealskins 1,981,370 



124.8000— Containing sealskins 744,089 



Total .- -- - 3,535,247 



The "basket" categories listed above include other products along with marine 

 mammal products (see attached copy of pages from the Tariff Schedules of the 

 United States Annotated 1971). Identification of an individual product making 

 up these categories is not available and therefore the proportion of these values 

 made up of marine mammal products is not available. Other marine mammal 

 products which may appear in other "basket" categories are considered to be of 

 minimal importance. 



The best estimate based upon available information is that the declared 

 total value of marine mammal imports to the United States falls between $10 

 million $15 million per year. It is not known what the economic impact of the 

 prohibition of these imports would have on the importing firms involved since 

 the magnitude of their total business and the proportion made up of imported 

 marine mammal products is not known. 



Tariff Schedules of the United States, Annotated (1971) 



FOB USE IN classification OF IMPORTED MERCHANDISE FOR RATE OF DUTY AND 



STATISTICAL PURPOSES 



SCHEDULE l.-ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE PRODUCTS 



PART 2.-MEATS 



Rates of duty 



Stat. Units of 



Item suffix Articles quantity 1 2 



SUBPART B.-MEATS OTHER THAN BIRD MEAT 



Subpart B headnote 



1. For the purposes of this subpart: (a) The term 

 "fresh, chilled, or frozen" covers meats even 

 though completely detendonized and deboned, 

 but does not cover meats which have been pre- 

 pared or preserved; and (b) the term "prepared 

 or preserved" covers meats even if in a fresh, 

 chilled, or frozen state if such meats have been 

 ground or comminuted, diced or cut into sizes for 

 stew meat or similar uses, rolled and skewered, 

 or specially processed into fancy cuts, special 

 shapes, or otherwise made ready for particular 

 uses by the retail consumer; and also covers 

 meats which have been subjected to processes 

 such as drying, curing, smoking, cooking, sea- 

 soning, flavoring, or to any combination of such 

 processes. 



Meats (except meat offal), fresh, chilled, or frozen, of 

 all animals (except birds): 



