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Tariff DatabaseUnfortunately, the data contained in DataWeb does not contain state level data. However, the US Census does report some trade data at the state level. For more information, please visit https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/historical/state.html
Imports of textile and apparel goods benefitting from trade preferences under the Haiti HOPE, HOPE II, or HELP Acts are not flagged as a special import program in official U.S. import statistics. The Haiti HOPE marker in DataWeb was generated by the USITC. Imports for consumption that meet three criteria were marked with this program marker: 1) country of origin is Haiti, 2) no other program was indicated (00-No program claimed) in the special import program field, and 3) a rate provision code of 18, which indicates the product was imported under a duty-free special import program.
Unfortunately, bill of landing (BOL) data is not available in official U.S. import statistics. While bills of lading and other shipment information along with Form 3461 (Customs Release) are required to be filed for goods to be entered into the country, these submissions are not the basis for import statistics because they do not contain the necessary data granularity needed for the creation of official U.S. import statistics. The Census Bureau instead uses data submitted to CBP by the importers of record in their entry summary paperwork, Form 7501 (which is submitted later in the import process typically after the cargo has already been released by Customs). As a result, any cargo release information, including the bills of lading, are not available on DataWeb. You will need to contact U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to get more detailed data from the cargo release process.
Official U.S. import statistics do not include transshipments, neither for imports for consumption nor for general imports. Physical arrivals into ocean ports or airports that then get shipped to another country are not included in official statistics. Likewise, imports that have been cleared with the legal requirement of being re-exported such as under the temporary in bond (TIB) program are generally excluded from official import statistics.
The suppressed columns indicate one or more entries included in the aggregate did not have its first unit of quantity data reported. This could be because it was redacted by Census in the publication of official import statistics or the importers in question failed to provide data for the first unit of quantity. Only aggregations where a first unit of quantity was required according to the HTSUS (for imports) or Schedule B (for exports) are flagged.
This is a marker the USITC created to indicate when there is likely suppression of quantity data by the Census Bureau in published official merchandise trade statistics. The data released by Census does not contain information or any indication of data suppression. However, the USITC can identify certain line items in the Census datafiles where, based on the HTS or Schedule B, a line should have reported a quantity. If the quantity data are missing from that field, DataWeb has flagged that record as potentially having suppressed quantity data. When applicable, these data flags are identified with stars in the various quantity aggregations conducted by users in the application to alert the users their aggregation contains one or more records with likely suppressed quantity data. The discovery that there were suppressed quantity data in the Census Bureau data files is also the reason for which we have disabled the application’s calculation of average unit values (AUVs) since such calculations can be significantly distorted depending on the amount of quantity data that has been suppressed within a specific query.
Some query parameters have changed or are no longer available from the previous version of DataWeb. This may cause some migrated queries to fail. If a query fails in the Saved Query page, you can select the query (from the Saved Query page), and after making the necessary updates, select Update Query to save the query with corrected parameters.
