INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Source countries of covered commodities should be identified using “abbreviations and variant spellings that unmistakably indicate the country of origin." U.S. represents the United States and the abbreviation “U.K." can represent “The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" according to AMS. Symbols or flags alone are not acceptable. To date, however, the list of acceptable abbreviations has been limited with no other list of recommended abbreviations published.