ST&R-TAP™ is an interactive subscription service that brings together the knowledge tools that are vitally necessary for every professional in the textile and apparel field. The service includes the following.
TRADE AND ECONOMIC REPORTS :
ST&R-TAP™ ADVISOR: A weekly newsletter containing news, analysis and insight into textile and apparel market issues that will impact your business. Please click here for a sample report.
Monthly Apparel Market Report: A detailed account of ongoing economic developments in the U.S. textile and apparel market. Issued monthly, the Outlook analyzes current trends in consumer demand, wholesale and retail sales, prices, employment, imports, the financial performance of U.S. apparel retailers and producers, and more. Please click here for a sample report.
ACE SUMMARY PROFILE AND strtap BENCHMARK
The ACE Summary Profile and strtap Benchmark ("ACE Profile") offers ACE account holders a user-friendly format for big picture trade data. Utilize your ACE account information to the fullest with this quick and easy tool to lower your costs and manage your business. The ACE Profile examines your ACE account information to provide you with up-to-date, easy-to-read figures on entered value and estimated duties broken down by imported product, manufacturer code, country of origin, mode of transportation, filer code, entry type, special trade program indicator, port of entry, carrier, and country of export. In addition, the ACE Profile allows you to benchmark your strtap countries and unit prices against all U.S. imports of similar merchandise. Please click here for a sample report.
WEB-BASED SERVICES
Trade Library: A searchable collection of key documents and reference materials on all aspects of international trade. Many items are “living” documents and are updated regularly. Also includes histroical documents and guidance from regulatory bodies. Quickly find what you need and apply the information to your particular operational needs.
Trade Data: Promptly obtain U.S. import data for any combination of textile/apparel products by HTS item, category or country.
Duty Rates: Complete information on the textile and apparel sections of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States is available at your fingertips. Quickly identify the effective duty rate and preferential duty rate on a vast variety of products.
China Monitoring System: Even though the quotas on a range of textile and apparel products from China expired at the end 2008, pressure exists to apply new controls on many of those products. The China Monitoring module provides advance information on products most vulnerable to any such actions.
Tariff Preference Level Utilizations Statistics: Tracks the status of the TPLs currently in place under unilateral preference programs and free trade agreements. This function allows you to obtain up-to-date TPL utilization statistics, keep aware of ongoing utilization trends and identify potential embargo situations.
Fiber Prices: Up-to-date and historical data on cotton and wool prices.
Economic Indicators: Up-to-date and historical information on the overall U.S. economy as well as the production and retail markets for textiles and apparel.
Exchange Rates: Up-to-date and historical data for all major currencies as well as those of all major textile and apparel exporting countries.
Please click here for subscription information and rates. For additional details, please contact the ST&R-TAP™ team at