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USITC Investigation Document Web Service |
Through its Electronic Document Information System (EDIS), the USITC provides an interface to extract investigation and document metadata through a Representational State Transfer (RESTful) architecture XML web service to provide key metadata to the user or application calling it. Investigation Data and Document Data may be extracted using this interface. The user of this interface may extract investigation data, including all investigations or investigation number or investigation and phase. The data may also be filtered by investigation status or investigation type.
Investigation information displayed includes the following data elements:
1) Investigation Number, such as 337-406, without the Tariff Act ( -TA-) nomenclature.
2) Investigation Phase, such as Violation, Preliminary, Final
3) Investigation Type, such as Import Injury, Sec 337, Industry and Economic Analysis, Byrd Amendment and Rule Making.
4) Investigation Status, such as PreInstitution, Active, Inactive, Cancelled.
5) Investigation Title
6) A link to the documents within that investigation
All documents stored in EDIS have metadata describing the content of each document. The user of this interface may extract document data by all or by document id. The data may also be filtered by investigation number, investigation phase, and document type.
Document information displayed includes the following data elements:
1) Document ID - unique ID number for the document in EDIS
2) Document Type - identifies the type of document, such as 'Action Request' or 'Correspondence - USITC'
3) Security Level - identifies the security level of the document. This interface will only extract metadata available to external users: Public, Limited and Confidential.
4) Investigation Number, such as 337-406
5) Investigation Phase, such as Violation, Preliminary, Final
6) Investigation Status, such as PreInstitution, Active, Inactive, Cancelled.
7) Investigation Title
8) Investigation Type, such as Import Injury, Sec 337, Industry and Economic Analysis, Byrd Amendment and Rule Making.
9) Firm / Organization - name of the Firm filing the document.
10) Filed By - attorney filing the document.
11) On Behalf of - Company being represented on the filing; or the Office for internal USITC filings.
12) Document Date - date the document was authored or signed.
13) Official Received Date - date the document was provided to the USITC Dockets Office.
Only Validated EDIS documents are included in this interface. Only Public, Limited and Confidential metadata are included. No document text or PDFs are included. |
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USITC Tariff Database - 2010 Tariffs |
This dataset provides a breakout of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) as of January 1, 2010. The file also indicates products that are eligible for tariff preferences (under programs such as the Caribbean Basin Initiative for example), and provides trade data for the items selected. Brief item descriptions have been provided by USITC for user convenience. The data is provided in both pipe-delimited text format and as an Excel spreadsheet. |
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Harmonized Tariff Schedule |
The Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) was enacted by Congress and made effective on January 1, 1989, replacing the former Tariff Schedules of the United States.
The HTS comprises a hierarchical structure for describing all goods in trade for duty, quota, and statistical purposes. This structure is based upon the international Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System (HS), administered by the World Customs Organization in Brussels ; the 4- and 6-digit HS product categories are subdivided into 8-digit unique U.S. rate lines and 10-digit non-legal statistical reporting categories. Classification of goods in this system must be done in accordance with the General and Additional U.S. Rules of Interpretation, starting at the 4-digit heading level to find the most specific provision and then moving to the subordinate categories.
The "general" rates of duty subcolumn contains U.S. normal trade relations duty rates; products of some NTR countries may be eligible for preferential tariff programs, as reflected in the "special" subcolumn. Column 2 (the so-called "statutory rates") applies to countries listed in general note 3(b); the general notes set forth the rules for applying the HTS. Embargoes, anti-dumping duties, countervailing duties, and other very specific matters administered by the Executive Branch are not contained in the HTS.
The USITC maintains and publishes the HTS (in print and on-line) pursuant to the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988; see the preface to the HTS for additional explanatory material. However, the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection of the Department of Homeland Security is responsible for interpreting and enforcing the HTS. |
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