Census' 2012 Schedule B for Exports to Only be Available Online
Census Bureau’s July 2011 Trade Source newsletter has announced that starting with the January 2012 edition, Schedule B will no longer be published and sold through the Government Printing Office.
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Schedule B is Available Online and in AES Products
Already available on the Foreign Trade Web site at www.census.gov/scheduleb, the online Schedule B is updated annually. The current 2011 version can be searched, browsed, and downloaded for free.
Schedule B numbers are also provided as a lookup table in the Automated Export
System (AES) products, AESDirect and AESPcLink.
(See ITT's Online Archives or 01/14/11 news, 11011425, for BP summary of the availability of the 2011 Schedule B and AES Concordances online.
Schedules C and D also on Census’ Website
Schedules C2 and D3 used to be revised and reprinted as Volume II of the Schedule B manual. These reference codes are now maintained on a more frequent basis on Census’ Foreign Trade Web site at www.census.gov/foreign-trade/reference/codes/index.html.
1Schedule B Statistical Classification of Domestic and Foreign Commodities Exported From the United States (also known as the Schedule B manual).
3Schedule C Classification of Country and Territory Designations for U.S. Foreign Trade Statistics
4Schedule D Classification of the U.S. Customs Districts and Ports for U.S. Foreign Trade Statistics.
July 2011 issue of TradeSource available here