Problems of the Domestic Textile Industry: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, United States Senate, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on a Study of the Textile Industry of the United States, Pursuant to S. Res. 287. July 8, 9, and 10, 1958, Volumes 2-5U.S. Government Printing Office, 1958 - Textile fabrics |
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Page 550
... competition we had from foreign mills was mainly in staple fabrics . Today , gentlemen , almost every type of woolen and worsted fabrication that we can make is in direct competition with imports . The chart was made up several months ...
... competition we had from foreign mills was mainly in staple fabrics . Today , gentlemen , almost every type of woolen and worsted fabrication that we can make is in direct competition with imports . The chart was made up several months ...
Page 561
... competition . " " Textiles " , he said , were faced with " complete lack of understanding of the industry's problems by Washington . " 2. Another policy of the Federal Government which tends to reduce markets for domestic textiles and ...
... competition . " " Textiles " , he said , were faced with " complete lack of understanding of the industry's problems by Washington . " 2. Another policy of the Federal Government which tends to reduce markets for domestic textiles and ...
Page 569
... competitive changes within the yarn market which may be caused by American competition . I am complaining , how- ever , about distortions brought on by unfair , low - wage imports . Importation of yarn as such tells only a fraction of ...
... competitive changes within the yarn market which may be caused by American competition . I am complaining , how- ever , about distortions brought on by unfair , low - wage imports . Importation of yarn as such tells only a fraction of ...
Page 570
... competition is fair by American standards . If we lose out , we have only ourselves to blame . These considerations , however , do not apply to unfair , low - wage for- eign competition . We cannot control the trade and tariff policies ...
... competition is fair by American standards . If we lose out , we have only ourselves to blame . These considerations , however , do not apply to unfair , low - wage for- eign competition . We cannot control the trade and tariff policies ...
Page 578
... competition with which each unit in our industry small or large , must deal . However , it seems a bitter fate that while we are thus so heavily engaged in technical and marketing revolutions , while we must confront the civil conflicts ...
... competition with which each unit in our industry small or large , must deal . However , it seems a bitter fate that while we are thus so heavily engaged in technical and marketing revolutions , while we must confront the civil conflicts ...
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Page 918 - ... reduce substantially the amount of any product processed in the United States from any such agricultural commodity or product thereof...
Page 1149 - This act shall not apply to purchases of such materials, supplies, articles, or equipment as may usually be bought in the open market: nor shall this act apply to perishables, including dairy, livestock and nursery products, or to agricultural or farm products processed for first sale by the original producers; nor to any contracts made by the secretary of agriculture for the purchase of agricultural commodities or the products thereof.
Page 1250 - States in such increased quantities, either actual or relative, as to cause or threaten serious injury to the domestic industry producing like or directly competitive products.
Page 1251 - If, on the basis of such investigation and report to him of findings and recommendations made in connection therewith, the President finds the existence of such facts, he shall by proclamation impose such fees not in excess of 50 per centum ad valorem or such quantitative limitations on any article or articles...
Page 1251 - ... the Agricultural Adjustment Act (of 1933), as Reenacted and Amended "Sec. 22 1 (a) Whenever the Secretary of Agriculture has reason to believe that any article or articles are being or are practically certain to be imported into the United States under such conditions and in such quantities as to render or tend to render ineffective or materially interfere with...
Page 805 - Agreement, including tariff concessions, any product is being imported into the territory of that contracting party in such increased quantities and under such conditions as to cause or threaten serious injury to domestic producers in that territory of like or directly competitive products...
Page 1250 - Director is of the opinion that the said article is being imported into the United States in such quantities or under such circumstances as to threaten to impair the national security...
Page 1250 - For the purposes of this section, the Director and the President shall, in the light of the requirements of national security and without excluding other relevant factors, give consideration to domestic production needed for projected national defense requirements, the capacity of domestic industries to meet such requirements, existing and anticipated availabilities of the human resources, products, raw materials, and other supplies and services essential to the national defense...
Page 1251 - Provided, That no proclamation under this section shall impose any limitation on the total quantity of any article or articles which may be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption which reduces such permissible total quantity to proportionately less than 50 per centum of the total quantity of such article or articles which was entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during a representative period as determined by the President...
Page 926 - Agriculture, or any agency operating under its direction, with respect to any agricultural commodity or product thereof, or to reduce substantially the amount of any product processed in the United States from any agricultural commodity or product thereof...