Handel międzynarodowy · 3.02.2000

Production Sharing: Use of U.S. Components in Foreign Assembly Operations, 1995-98

The Commission is changing the method of providing continued reporting on production sharing and related topics, and has published the last in a formal series of annual reports on production sharing under Inv. No. 332-237, covering the period 1995-98, in December 1999. The report series has been discontinued because official U.S. statistics increasingly understate the magnitude of production-sharing activity. As a growing share of global trade becomes duty free, incentives are reduced for entering U.S. imports under the production- sharing tariff provisions. The Commission will continue to report informally on cross-border integration of manufacturing and related topics in other publications, as appropriate, and plans to report annual statistics on trade under the production-sharing provisions in its quarterly publication Industry Trade and Technology Review (ITTR), as well as provide expanded coverage for these data on the Commission's "Interactive Tariff and Trade DataWeb" (http://dataweb.usitc.gov).