Small Business Participation in ECA Program: Hearing Before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, First Session ... June 6, 1949 |
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... channels . The CHAIRMAN . Can you encourage the normal private trade channels in the direction of small business , to any extent ? If you can develop that , I think we would be very interested in hearing it . Mr. HOFFMAN . I think we ...
... channels . The CHAIRMAN . Can you encourage the normal private trade channels in the direction of small business , to any extent ? If you can develop that , I think we would be very interested in hearing it . Mr. HOFFMAN . I think we ...
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... channels have been placed with smaller enter- prises , in dollar volume , about 25 percent . Now , I think that is about the ratio . In other words , with what we have done up to now , we have done about as well as anybody has been able ...
... channels have been placed with smaller enter- prises , in dollar volume , about 25 percent . Now , I think that is about the ratio . In other words , with what we have done up to now , we have done about as well as anybody has been able ...
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... channels of trade whenever possible , certain purchasing of commodities financed by the Economic Cooperation Adminis- tration is done through foreign government purchasing missions or agencies , under foreign government supervision ...
... channels of trade whenever possible , certain purchasing of commodities financed by the Economic Cooperation Adminis- tration is done through foreign government purchasing missions or agencies , under foreign government supervision ...
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... channels of trade , in many instances , it is after the event . The private buyer goes to the private seller and makes many of his negotiations before he even applies for his import license . Because , until he has made those agreements ...
... channels of trade , in many instances , it is after the event . The private buyer goes to the private seller and makes many of his negotiations before he even applies for his import license . Because , until he has made those agreements ...
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... channel . Is there any way of helping small business in that situation ? Mr. FOSTER . I doubt that they are ECA dollars . In all these countries , you are aware there are free dollars earned by the countries themselves through the ...
... channel . Is there any way of helping small business in that situation ? Mr. FOSTER . I doubt that they are ECA dollars . In all these countries , you are aware there are free dollars earned by the countries themselves through the ...
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44 Beaver St ALLEN FREAR American dollars appropriation BANKING AND CURRENCY believe Bert White Bizone Board of Trade bought British Government buying agency CHAIRMAN chasing Commodity Credit Corporation competition cotton d'Achat develop Director disseminating Division of Ministry ECA dollars ECA is concerned ECA programs ECONOMIC COOPERATION ADMINISTRATION Europe European export field fats and oils FOSTER France French zone going Greece Groupement hardwood lumber help small HOFFMAN industries JOHN SPARKMAN KUNZE L'HEUREUX let us say long-term dollar investments Maybank ment Ministry of Food Netherlands Norway Office offshore procurement participating countries percent problem Procurement Agency procurement authorization purchasing missions question recovery fund securities Senator BRICKER Senator CAPEHART Senator FREAR Senator ROBERTSON Senator SPARKMAN small business small manufacturer smaller enterprises soft currencies soybeans staff suppliers supply task force things United Kingdom United States Senate Washington wheat York
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Page 1 - Business. — (a) Insofar as practicable and to the maximum extent consistent with the accomplishment of the purposes of this Act, the President shall assist American small business to participate equitably in the furnishing of commodities...
Page 1 - States and particularly to small independent enterprises, information, as far in advance as possible, with respect to purchases proposed to be financed with such funds, (2) by causing to be made available to prospective purchasers in the nations receiving assistance under this Act information as to commodities and services produced by small independent enterprises in the United States...
Page 1 - The Secretary of Defense shall assure that there is made available to suppliers in the United States, and particularly to small independent enterprises, information with respect to purchases made by the Department of Defense pursuant to part II, such information to be furnished as far in advance as possible.
Page 10 - Destinations published by the Office of International Trade of the United States Department of Commerce...
Page 28 - To canvass all possible dollar sources, including United States sources, in order to insure they are obtaining the lowest possible bids; and, (c) Certainly not to pay more from any dollar source than United States suppliers quote.
Page 1 - ... foregoing paragraph (1). Each report transmitted to the Congress under section 123 shall include a report of all activities under this subsection. Will you proceed, Mr. Hoffman? STATEMENT OF PAUL HOFFMAN, CHAIRMAN, ECONOMIC COOPERATIVE ADMINISTRATION Mr. HOFFMAN. I will be very glad to open this with a few remarks. In the first place I would like to make my own personal attitude, if I may, clear, as far as smaller enterprises are concerned. That is, that...
Page 10 - ... mind, the Department expressed the view that the missions should limit their operations during the transition period to the procurement of commodities necessary to meet essential civilian requirements for relief and rehabilitation. The Department also took the position that purchasing missions should use normal trade channels to the maximum extent practicable and that their purchasing methods should be in accord with commercial considerations. The governments having purchasing missions here were...