Tariff Schedules

Tariff Schedules of the United States, Annotated, and International Trade Economy

In relation to international trade economy, Christopher Mark (1993) provided the following definition of TSUSA (Tariff Schedules of the United States, Annotated): The classification system in which US import data are recorded according to 10,500 seven-digit product categories. .The TSUSA is the legal basis for US Customs duty calculations. Schedule A is a rearrangement of TSUSA import data in a form closely resembling the SITC international data format developed by the United Nations. Schedule B is the export equivalent of the TSUSA, and Schedule E is the rearrangement of Schedule B data conforming to the of SITC format. The End-Use classification system, developed by the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis, rearranges TSUSA and Schedule B data into categories associated with the principal uses of the traded goods. Finally, the SIC-Based Trade Data classification system, developed by the Census Bureau, transforms original TSUSA and Schedule B data into an approximation of the SIC format.

Tariff Schedules of the United States, Annotated and International Trade Economy

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TSUSA Technological Trajectories innovation systems