There is a marked concentration of
imports in the value groups between $4 and $7 per dozen. About 90 per
cent of all the sennit hats and 80 per cent of the total importations
had foreign values of less than $7 per dozen.

TABLE 6.--_Percentage of men's sewed straw hats imported at the port
of New York from Italy with a foreign value less than that specified,
January-June_, 1924

--------------+------------+------------+------------------+-----------
Foreign value | Sennits[1] | Fancies[2] | Miscellaneous[3] | Total
less than-- | | | |
--------------+------------+------------+------------------+-----------
| _Per cent_ | _Per cent_ | _Per cent_ | _Per cent_
$9.50 | 98.6 | 98.5 | 92.0 | 96.8
$9.00 | 98.6 | 97.4 | 87.9 | 95.2
$8.50 | 97.3 | 95.6 | 85.7 | 93.5
$8.00 | 91.2 | 92.3 | 79.9 | 90.3
$7.50 | 94.3 | 85.9 | 76.4 | 86.3
$7.00 | 88.8 | 79.0 | 72.3 | 80.6
$6.50 | 68.9 | 61.5 | 63.8 | 64.7
$6.00 | 9.1 | 40.9 | 46.1 | 48.6
$5.50 | 46.4 | 36.2 | 35.0 | 39.4
$5.00 | 33.9 | 28.4 | 18.5 | 27.6
$4.50 | 21.6 | 24.8 | 12.0 | 20.2
--------------+------------+------------+------------------+-----------
[1: Split, improved, and flatfoot.]
[2: Fancy straw and sennit, fancy.]
[3: Including hats the type of which is not specified in the invoice.]

The imports at the port of New York of hats from England are classified
in Table 7. It is evident that the bulk of the English importations are
not competitive with Italian hats. Only 28 per cent of the imports from
England had a foreign value of less than $7 per dozen.

TABLE 7.--_Imports at the port of New York of men's sewed straw hats
from England,[1] classified according to foreign value, including
packing, January-June_, 1924

------------------+---------
Foreign value | Dozen
------------------+---------
$6.50-$6.99 | 2,631
$7.00-$7.49 | ...
$7.50-$7.99 | ...
$8.00-$8.49 | ...
$8.50-$8.99 | 3,340
$9.00-$9.49 | 1,26