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Page 62 - Extensive hearings followed before the House Committee on Ways and Means, and the Senate Committee on Finance.
Page 104 - Bank shall be to aid in financing and to facilitate exports and imports and the exchange of commodities between the United States or any of its Territories or insular possessions and any foreign country or the agencies or nationals thereof.
Page 61 - Commission shall promptly make an investigation to determine whether, as a result in major part of concessions granted under trade agreements, an article is being imported into the United States in such increased quantities as to cause, or threaten to cause, serious injury to the domestic industry producing an article which is like or directly competitive with the imported article.
Page 30 - Except as hereinafter provided, every article of foreign origin (or its container, as provided in subsection (b) hereof) imported into the United States shall be marked in a conspicuous place as legibly, indelibly, and permanently as the nature of the article (or container) will permit in such manner as to indicate to an ultimate purchaser in the United States the English name of the country of origin of the article.
Page 87 - States in such quantities or under such circumstances as to threaten to impair the national security...
Page 45 - Agreement on Interpretation and Application of Articles VI, XVI, and XXIII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade...
Page 25 - Any person directly or indirectly owning, controlling, or holding with power to vote, 5 per centum or more of the outstanding voting stock or shares of any organization and such organization ; and (6) Two or more persons directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with, any person.
Page 61 - States in such increased quantities as to be a substantial cause of serious injury, or the threat thereof, to the domestic industry producing an article like or directly competitive with the imported article. "(B) For purposes of this section, the term 'substantial cause ' means a cause which is important and not less than any other cause.
Page 106 - ... to aid in financing and to facilitate exports and imports and the exchange of commodities between the United States or any of its Territories or insular possessions and any foreign country or the agencies or nationals thereof." The act also provides that it is the policy of the Congress that the bank should supplement and encourage and not compete with private capital...