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A summary by broad categories is given in Table 1. A more detailed breakdown of U.S. cosmetic sales is provided in Table 2. The U.S. Commerce Department reports a modest (8%) increase in the value of cosmetic industry shipments between 1989 and 1991, despite a 13% decrease in total industry employment. 

Vandegrift, A.E., Shannon, L.J. Particulate Pollutant System Study. voL II, Handbook of Emission Properties, NHS, National Technical Information Service, Commerce Department PB 203522, Springfield, Va., 197 1. 

The international issues raised by TSCA interface with several arenas -- including the State Department, Commerce Department, EPA, the Organization for Economic... 

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The first pharmaceutical company to win the U.S. Commerce Department s Ron Brown Award for Cor-... 

According to the Commerce Department s National Trade Data Bank (NTDB 1994), the following amounts of 1,1,1-trichloroethane (in pounds with kg in parentheses) were exported from the United States during the period 1989-1993 124.3 million (56.4 million) in 1989 114.6 million (52.0 million) in 1990 162.4 million (73.7 million) in 1991 139.7 million (63.4 million) in 1992 and 75.8 million (34.4 million) in 1993. The amount of 1,1,1-trichloroethane exported has declined since 1991. Because 1,1,1-trichloroethane may be an ozone-destroying chemical, its export and import will sharply decline in future years as a result of the Montreal Protocol. The following amounts of... 

In the period between World War II and the Korean action, the Chemical Division of the Commerce Department s Office of Domestic Commerce continued its long-standing function of compiling and disseminating statistics of concern to the chemical and chemical process industries. 

The mobilization activities tapered off after the Korean action and controls on chemicals were taken off. NPA was dissolved and the Commerce Department reorganized its commodity divisions with the object of furnishing a service to industry on a more normal peacetime basis. Inherent in the reorganization planning, however, was the idea that the new setup should serve as the nucleus for any future mobilization programs. Business and Defense Services Administration, as the new organization is called, includes 25 commodity divisions. The Chemical and Rubber Division is one of these. 

Principal sources of statistics of interest to the chemical and chemical process industries are cited in the Chemical Statistics Directory. This publication was prepared by the Chemical and Rubber Division of the Commerce Department. The first edition of this appeared in 1947 and covered the year 1945. The second edition was printed in 1949 and covered the period 1946-47. No revised editions have appeared since that time. Copies of the first are available from the Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C., at 0.15. Copies of the second are available at the same address at a cost of 0.20. 

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Such activites in this country are usually resisted by the proponents of R D for a very simple reason firms that support R D are usually firms that do not need this information. But the 3 or 4 million other firms who manufacture parts, forgings, castings, and the like who do usually need that information cannot afford to obtain it independently. The Commerce Department makes an assessment every year or so of the productivity of firms in each of several industries. In general the productivity of the most productive firms in an industry is two or three times greater than the less productive firms in the same industry. The ratio of the productivity to the firms in the upper decile of productivity is usually two and a half to three times the productivity of the firms in the lower decile of productivity. The point is that if we simply worked as well as we know how, productivity in this country should increase on the order of 50 to 100 percent. Any of you who have been in relatively small firms that supply big companies of this country will recognize the practices that were well knowiten, twenty or thirty years ago are not in practice in some of those firms today. 

Speaking of national level policies regarding innovation, very important study on the subject was completed this summer Domestic Policy Review on Industrial Innovation by the Commerce Department, for President Carter. This was a massive undertaking with a substantial input from some of the best talent we have in our companies. 

Economist/Assistant Director Center for Research in Electronic Commerce Department of MSIS University of Texas Austin, Texas USA... 

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