daBedRaw: Wooden Beds Import Data

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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.

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.

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).

Source

U.S. ITC, 2010. Interactive tariff and trade data web. US International Trade Commission (Assecced on March 1, 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)

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