Freight Rates for Recyclable Materials: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Transportation and Aeronautics of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 6637 (and All Identical Bills) Bills to Encourage the Movement in Interstate and Foreign Commerce of Recycled and Recyclable Materials and to Reduce the Quantities of Solid Waste Materials in Commerce which Cannot be Recycled Or Do Not Contain Available Recycled Materials, and for Other Purposes ; H.R. 12536 (and All Identical Bills) Bills to Protect the Environment and Conserve Natural Resources by Stimulating the Use of Recycled and Recyclable Materials by Effecting Rate Changes in the Movement of These Materials by Common Carrier, and for Other Purposes, March 12, 13, and 14, 1974 |
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Page 210 - That no common carrier by water in foreign commerce shall demand, charge, or collect any rate, fare, or charge which is unjustly discriminatory between shippers or ports, or unjustly prejudicial to exporters of the United States as compared with their foreign competitors. Whenever the board finds that any such rate, fare, or charge...
Page 213 - Commission is hereby directed to effect with the least practicable delay such lawful changes in the rate structure of the country as will promote the freedom of movement by common carriers of the products of agriculture affected by that depression, including livestock, at the lowest possible lawful rates compatible with the maintenance of adequate transportation service...
Page 158 - ... to encourage the establishment and maintenance of reasonable charges for transportation services, without unjust discriminations, undue preferences or advantages, or unfair or destructive competitive practices...
Page 35 - Printing shall have power to adopt and employ such measures as, in its discretion, may be deemed necessary to remedy any neglect, delay, duplication, or waste in the public printing and binding and the distribution of Government publications...
Page 214 - The Commission shall disapprove any rate or charge filed by a common carrier by water in the foreign commerce of me United States or conference of carriers which, after hearing, it finds to be so unreasonably high or low as to be detrimental to the commerce of the United States.
Page 156 - To bring a difference in rates within the prohibition of section 3, it must be shown that the discrimination practiced is unjust when measured by the transportation standard. In other words, the difference in rates cannot be held illegal, unless it is shown that it is not justified by the cost of the respective services, by their values, or by other transportation conditions.
Page 65 - ... (6) the effect of existing public policies, including subsidies and economic incentives and disincentives, percentage depletion allowances, capital gains treatment and other tax incentives and disincentives, upon the recycling and reuse of...
Page 199 - ... airlines, public utilities, and domestic shipping. In international ocean shipping, however, it is difficult for any single government to regulate ocean freight rates. The foreign commerce of the United States is also the foreign commerce of another nation. No government completely controls more than one end of the journey and only a fraction of the carriers are its own nationals. And yet, the principle of "the freedom of the seas...
Page 142 - Future scrap markets are being affected because new investment that would logically be directed to scrap-intensive steelmaking is diverted because of the existing freight rate structure to oreintensive steelmaking. (3) Iron ore (a limited domestic natural resource) is being exploited when it can and should be conserved. (4) Some scrap iron that should be recycled is unable...
Page 116 - Upon proof being made, at any hearing on a complaint under this section, that there has been discrimination in price or services or facilities furnished, the burden of rebutting the prima facie case thus made by showing justification shall be upon the person charged with a violation of this section, and unless justification shall be affirmatively shown, the Commission is authorized to issue an order terminating the discrimination...