Export of Lumber: Hearings, Seventy-sixth Congress, Third Session, March 27, 1940 |
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American exporters American lumber American shipping Answer authorized and directed Boykin British Columbia Canada Canadian subsidies cargo carrier CHAIRMAN charter Commission is authorized Committee on Merchant commodities and products common carrier Congress Douglas fir export associations export subsidy export trade exporters of lumber February 16 Federal Trade Commission Finland foreign commerce foreign countries foreign markets foreign port foreign trade forest products Government Hardwood Hardwood lumber hearing Japan legislation logs long ton lumber and manufactured lumber and timber lumber exporters lumber industry manufactured timber products Marine and Fisheries Maritime Commission ment Merchant Marine Act National Lumber Manufacturers necessary operation OXHOLM Pacific coast Pacific Northwest percent Pine port as low principal foreign competitors proposal purpose Question regulation section 211 Section 604 Senate shillings 6 pence shillings per 1,000 shipments shippers Shipping Act shipping service shipping subsidies Softwoods Tariff thousand board-feet trade route transportation United Kingdom United States Maritime vessels Washington
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Page 9 - TRADE. (a) UNFAIR METHODS OF COMPETITION DECLARED UNLAWFUL. — Unfair methods of competition and unfair acts in the importation of articles into the United States, or in their sale by the owner, importer, consignee, or agent of either, the effect or tendency of which is to destroy or substantially injure an industry, efficiently and economically operated, in the United States, or to prevent the establishment of such an industry, or to restrain or monopolize trade and commerce in the United States,...
Page 70 - It is necessary for the national defense and development of its foreign and domestic commerce that the United States shall have a merchant marine (a) sufficient to carry its domestic waterborne commerce and a substantial portion of the waterborne export and import foreign commerce of the United States...
Page 9 - Discriminates in fact against the commerce of the United States, directly or indirectly, by law or administrative regulation or practice, by or in respect to any customs, tonnage, or port duty, fee, charge, exaction, classification, regulation, condition, restriction, or prohibition, in such manner as to place the commerce of the United States at a disadvantage compared with the commerce of any foreign country.
Page 37 - In view of the existing depression in agriculture, the 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 65 - SEC. 17. 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.
Page 37 - The board may by order disapprove, cancel, or modify any agreement, or any modification or cancellation thereof, whether or not previously approved by it, that it finds to be unjustly discriminatory or unfair as between carriers, shippers, exporters, importers, or ports, or between exporters from the United States and their foreign competitors, or to operate to the detriment of the commerce of the United States, or to be in violation of this Act, and shall approve all other agreements, modifications,...
Page 37 - In making any such change, adjustment, or redistribution the commission shall give due regard, among other factors, to the general and comparative levels in market value of the various classes and kinds of commodities as indicated over a reasonable period of years, to a natural and proper development of the country as a whole, and to the maintenance of an adequate system of transportation.
Page 71 - Any citizen of the United States may make application to the Commission for a construction-differential subsidy to aid in the construction of a new vessel, to be used on a service, route, or line in the foreign commerce of the United States...
Page 9 - The President when he finds that the public interest will be served thereby shall by proclamation specify and declare new or additional duties as hereinafter provided upon articles wholly or in part the growth or product of...
Page 8 - The commission shall have power to investigate the tariff relations between the United States and foreign countries, commercial treaties, preferential provisions, economic alliances, the effect of export bounties and preferential transportation rates, the volume of importations compared with domestic production and consumption, and conditions, causes, and effects relating to competition of foreign industries with those of the United States, including dumping and cost of production.