daBedRaw {erer}R Documentation

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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