Market Expansion for U.S.-produced Wine: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Trade of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, July 24, 1984 |
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... respect to the nontariff barriers of designated major trading countries on wine and other grape products . The President shall begin an investigation within two months after a country has been designated a major trading country . Each ...
... respect to the nontariff barriers of designated major trading countries on wine and other grape products . The President shall begin an investigation within two months after a country has been designated a major trading country . Each ...
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... respect for not only this committee but those who have been testifying before you . I hate to find areas of disagreement but it is a little . frustrating to have criticism levied at us for not negotiating effec- tively and then denied ...
... respect for not only this committee but those who have been testifying before you . I hate to find areas of disagreement but it is a little . frustrating to have criticism levied at us for not negotiating effec- tively and then denied ...
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... respect to Japan , we recently got agreement from the Japanese Government for a reduction of its ad valorem duty by almost a third , from 55 down to 38 percent . Duties will be reduced on bulk sparkling and for the identified wines ...
... respect to Japan , we recently got agreement from the Japanese Government for a reduction of its ad valorem duty by almost a third , from 55 down to 38 percent . Duties will be reduced on bulk sparkling and for the identified wines ...
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... respect to Europe , the other principal market , we did face a nontariff barrier in the certification practice of certain wines . We negotiated at some length with the Europeans . We reached an agreement on changing those practices as ...
... respect to Europe , the other principal market , we did face a nontariff barrier in the certification practice of certain wines . We negotiated at some length with the Europeans . We reached an agreement on changing those practices as ...
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... respects to the prod- uct under consideration . " Section 8 violates the " like product " requirement by treating growers who are not engaged in the production of a " like product " as part of the industry . For obvious reasons , a raw ...
... respects to the prod- uct under consideration . " Section 8 violates the " like product " requirement by treating growers who are not engaged in the production of a " like product " as part of the industry . For obvious reasons , a raw ...
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Page 179 - It is quite apparent that if, in the maintenance of our international relations, embarrassment — perhaps serious embarrassment — is to be avoided and success for our aims achieved, congressional legislation which is to be made effective through negotiation and inquiry within the international field must often accord to the President a degree of discretion and freedom from statutory restriction which would not be admissible were domestic affairs alone involved.
Page 178 - In this vast external realm, with its important, complicated, delicate, and manifold problems the President alone has the power to speak or listen as a representative of the Nation.
Page 179 - The President is the constitutional representative of the United States with regard to foreign nations. He manages our concerns with foreign nations and must necessarily be most competent to determine when, how, and upon what subjects negotiation may be urged with the greatest prospect of success. For his conduct he is responsible to the Constitution.
Page 180 - And while this rule in respect of treaties is established by the express language of cl. 2, Art. VI, of the Constitution, the same rule would result in the case of all international compacts and agreements from the very fact that complete power over international affairs is in the national government and is not and cannot be subject to any curtailment or interference on the part of the several states.
Page 178 - The President is the sole organ of the nation in its external relations, and its sole representative with foreign nations.
Page 112 - The Equal Protection Clause of that amendment does, however, deny to States the power to legislate that different treatment be accorded to persons placed by a statute into different classes on the basis of criteria wholly unrelated to the objective of that statute.
Page 191 - Congress may touch a field in which the federal interest is so dominant that the federal system will be assumed to preclude enforcement of state laws on the same subject.
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Page 228 - domestic like product" and the "industry." 8 Section 771(4)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), defines the relevant domestic industry as the "producers as a [w]hole of a domestic like product, or those producers whose collective output of a domestic like product constitutes a major proportion of the total domestic production of the product." 9 In turn, the Act defines "domestic like product...