Comprehensive Trade Legislation: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, and Its Subcommittee on Trade, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 3 ... February 5, 10, 18, 20, 26, and 27, 1987, Part 1

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Page 22 - Honorable Sam Gejdenson, Chairman Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade Committee on Foreign Affairs House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear...
Page 4 - STATEMENT OF HON. ROBERT H. MICHEL, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF ILLINOIS Mr. MICHEL. Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee.
Page 244 - If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace;" and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty. Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them. A man...
Page 26 - Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I want to thank you for giving me this opportunity to testify on behalf of the...
Page 318 - Senate, in effect, obligates the President to implement ITC import relief recommendations when the Commission renders a unanimous injury determination. The proposal thus prohibits both the ITC and the President from measuring the costs of import protection for one industry against the costs to other competitive industries which are likely to shoulder the costs of 201 relief Lowering the In-jury Standard HR 3 specifically lowers the standard by which the ITC is to determine whether fairly traded imports...
Page 58 - ... (C) a prohibition on the use of any form of forced or compulsory labor; (D) a minimum age for the employment of children; and (E) acceptable conditions of work with respect to minimum wages, hours of work, and occupational safety and health.
Page 193 - Energy, the Office of Management and Budget, the Council of Economic Advisors and the International Development Cooperation Agency.
Page 171 - III. IMPROVING THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY President Reagan has sought an unprecedented level of coordination of international economic policies among the leading developed countries to provide a more reasonable relationship between the dollar and other currencies to assist US exporters and import-sensitive industries. Plaza Agreement Secretary Baker and representatives of four other Industrialized nations agreed on September 22, 1985 to embark on a major effort to coordinate economic policies. The...
Page 168 - Uruguay Round On September 20, 1986, in Punta del Este, Uruguay, trade ministers from the 92 nations in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) launched comprehensive multilateral trade negotiations under the GATT. The talks will strengthen the international trading system so that US manufacturing, services and agricultural industries can better compete in international markets. The US will seek new rules covering trade in services...
Page 47 - American workers and industry regain the production, jobs and income lost over the last number of years. The concern of those members is very basic and very dire. For the first time in our history, we have a generation of Americans who cannot reasonably expect to do as well as their parents did. The middle class is shrinking. Scores of domestic industries and millions of American workers have been left defenseless against an onslaught of imports spurred by foreign government practices and the vagaries...

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