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daBedRaw: Wooden Beds Import Data

Description

This data set contains a mulitiple time series related to wooden beds imports by the United States. The time covered is January 1996 to December 2008 with 156 observations. There are 34 variables in total: 17 import values (dollars) and 17 import quantities (dollars / piece). In total, 16 countries are covered and the world total is also reported. ll{ vBR cost-insurance-freight import values in dollar from Brazil vCA cost-insurance-freight import values in dollar from Canada vCN cost-insurance-freight import values in dollar from China vDK cost-insurance-freight import values in dollar from Denmark vFR cost-insurance-freight import values in dollar from France vHK cost-insurance-freight import values in dollar from Hong Kong vIA cost-insurance-freight import values in dollar from India vID cost-insurance-freight import values in dollar from Indonesia vIT cost-insurance-freight import values in dollar from Italy vMY cost-insurance-freight import values in dollar from Malaysia vMX cost-insurance-freight import values in dollar from Mexico vPH cost-insurance-freight import values in dollar from Philippines vTW cost-insurance-freight import values in dollar from Taiwan vTH cost-insurance-freight import values in dollar from Thailand vUK cost-insurance-freight import values in dollar from United Kingdom vVN cost-insurance-freight import values in dollar from Vietnam vWD cost-insurance-freight import values in dollar from World in total qBR quantity in piece from Brazil qCA quantity in piece from Canada qCN quantity in piece from China qDK quantity in piece from Denmark qFR quantity in piece from France qHK quantity in piece from Hong Kong qIA quantity in piece from India qID quantity in piece from Indonesia qIT quantity in piece from Italy qMY quantity in piece from Malaysia qMX quantity in piece from Mexico qPH quantity in piece from Philippines qTW quantity in piece from Taiwan qTH quantity in piece from Thailand qUK quantity in piece from United Kingdom qVN quantity in piece from Vietnam qWD quantity in piece from World in total }

Usage

data(daBedRaw)

format

Monthly time series from Janurary 1996 to December 2008 with 156 observations for each of the 34 variables.

source

U.S. ITC, 2010. Interactive tariff and trade data web. http://dataweb.usitc.gov (Assecced on March 1, 2010).

Details

Under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) system, the commodity of wooden beds is classified as HTS 9403.50.9040. The monthly cost-insurance-freight values in dollar and quantities in piece are reported by country from U.S. ITC (2010).

References

Wan, Y., C. Sun, and D.L. Grebner. 2010. Analysis of import demand for wooden beds in the United States. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 42(4):643-658.

See Also

aiStaFit; daBed.

Examples

data(daBedRaw)
class(daBedRaw); dim(daBedRaw); colnames(daBedRaw)