Foreign Trade in Agricultural Products: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Eighty-third Congress, First Session, on Exports and Imports of Agricultural Commodities and Their Effect on Farm Price Programs |
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Agricultural Adjustment Act agricultural exports agricultural products American areas Argentina average bales basis BROSSARD butter butterfat Canada casein cents per pound certificates CHAIRMAN committee Commodity Credit Corporation competitive Congress consumption cost cotton crop dairy products Defense Production Act Department of Agriculture dollars domestic production dry milk dry milk solids dry whole milk duty economic effect ELLENDER exports and imports farm farmers foreign trade going Government grain increase industry international trade LINDER manufactured ment million bushels million pounds nations nonfat dry milk oats parity percent President price support price-support program problem purchase question quotas restrictions SCHOEPPEL Secretary BENSON Secretary of Agriculture section 104 section 22 sell Senator EASTLAND Senator HICKENLOOPER Senator HOLLAND Senator MUNDT Senator THYE Senator WILLIAMS Senator YOUNG statement supply support prices support program surplus swiss cheese Tariff Commission thing tion Trade Agreements United Kingdom Western Europe wheat wool
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Page 235 - 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 631 - The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10 am, in Room 324, Senate Office Building, Washington, DC, Senator George D. Aiken of Vermont presiding. Present: Senators Aiken (chairman), Young, Thye, Hickenlooper, Mundt, Schoeppel, Welker, Ellender, Hoey, Johnston, Holland, Anderson and Clements.
Page 567 - After investigation, report, finding, and declaration in the manner provided in the case of a proclamation issued pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, any proclamation or provision of such proclamation may be suspended or terminated by the President whenever he finds and proclaims that the circumstances requiring the proclamation or provision thereof no longer exist or may be modified by the President whenever he finds and proclaims that changed circumstances require such modification to carry...
Page 584 - Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, thank you for the privilege of appearing before your committee. I ask your attention for a few moments to acquaint you with a bill I introduced to amend the Railroad Retirement Act. It is S. 2178 to amend section 3-b of the act. It is a companion bill to HR 356, which passed the House of Representatives by an overwhelming voice vote on July 24, 1953. The present...
Page 567 - ... any article or articles which may be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption as he finds and declares shown by such investigation to be necessary in order that the entry of such article or articles will not render or tend to render ineffective, or materially interfere with, any program or operation referred to in sub-section (a) of this section...
Page 567 - No trade agreement or other international agreement heretofore or hereafter entered into by the United States shall be applied in a manner inconsistent with the requirements of this section.
Page 205 - The Committee will come to order. We are glad to have with us this morning Mr.
Page 349 - ... satisfaction. There is another thing I wish to say, and I say it with a certain degree of earnestness. This case has naturally aroused a considerable amount of public interest. It is not for me to say whether it is right or not but the fact remains that it is so, and opinions have been expressed from the point of view of the public and from the point of view of what I might call 'official sources' beginning with the Viceroy of India.
Page 15 - I propose this action as an interim measure. As such, it will allow for the temporary continuation of our present trade program pending completion of a thorough and comprehensive reexamination of the economic foreign policy of the United States.
Page 84 - For an economy to be dynamic and expanding, goods and capital must flow freely. This requires world trade and world investment, with governments encouraging private investment and stimulating trade as an outlet for the increasing productivity of the world's farms and factories. This approach requires systematic abandonment of policies directed toward restriction of the production and distribution of goods and services throughout the world.