The Foreign Policy Aspects of the Kennedy Round: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, Second Session. August 9-10, 17, 1966, February 15-16, March 7-8, April 4-5, 1967 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966 |
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50 percent achieve administration agree agricultural products American selling price antidumping balance bargaining basis BERRY billion Chairman chemicals committee common agricultural policy Common Market competition concerned concessions Congress consumer CULVER developed countries disparities domestic effect EFTA Europe European Economic Community extent FARBSTEIN food aid FOREIGN ECONOMIC POLICY free trade freer FRELINGHUYSEN GATT Geneva going grains agreement HERTER imports increase industry international trade June 30 Kennedy Round legislation Leonard Farbstein less-developed countries major manufactured MCNEILL mean ment METZGER MONAGAN national interest nomic nontariff barriers participants PIQUET political position President problems proposal protection question quotas reciprocity reduce result ROTH SCHNITTKER sector statement STEINBERG STREETER subcommittee success talking tariff reductions Thank thing tion trade agreement trade barriers Trade Expansion Act trade negotiations trade policy TUNNEY U.S. Government United United Kingdom variable levy wheat world trade
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Page 65 - I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Page 28 - Community, section 201 (b) (1) shall not apply to articles in any category if, before entering into such trade agreement, the President determines with respect to such category that the United States and all countries of the European Economic Community together accounted for 80 percent or more of the aggregated world export value of all the articles in such category.
Page 34 - The value for customs purposes of imported merchandise should be based on the actual value of the imported merchandise on which duty is assessed, or of like merchandise, and should not be based on the value of merchandise of national origin or on arbitrary or fictitious values. (b) "Actual value...
Page 26 - Law, a member of the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Page 24 - It is our understanding that, the hearings before the subcommittee on foreign economic policy of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs will relate primarily to questions of overall foreign economic policy.
Page 1 - Our efforts to maintain the leadership of the free world thus rest, in the final analysis, on our success in this undertaking. Economic isolation and political leadership are wholly incompatible. In the next few years, the nations of Western Europe will be fixing basic economic and trading patterns vitally affecting the future of our economy and the hopes of our less-developed friends. Basic political and military decisions of vital interest to our security will be made. Unless we have this authority...
Page 55 - I would be less than honest if I did not say that we can also foresee certain circumstances under which we would like to have 18.
Page 9 - Atlantic -- then we cannot hope to play an effective part in those basic decisions. If we are to retain our leadership, the initiative is up to us. The revolutionary changes which are occurring will not wait for us to make up our minds. The United States has encouraged sweeping changes in Free World economic patterns in order to strengthen the forces of freedom. But we cannot ourselves stand still. If we are to lead, we must act. We must adapt our own economy to the imperatives of a changing world,...
Page 64 - ... excepted list that we as the Government have decided to withhold. Mr. McNEiLL. That has not been published. Mr. MONAGAN. That is subject to negotiation. You might change the decision and put some on the table for negotiation and the Europeans might withdraw some of the ones that we have put on the list? Mr. McNEiLL. That is theoretically possible, but I think in the case of the United States and in the case of the EEC that the list of products on which we have not made offers of tariff concessions...
Page 12 - We have been prepared to make substantial offers and we expect reciprocity from our industrialized trading partners. We are prepared to adjust our offers to any extent necessary to assure reciprocity but we are aiming to attain the highest possible level of multilateral trade liberalizations. President Johnson has expressed our goal clearly: We in the United States look upon these negotiations as an important opening to a better world. If we act together with dedication and purpose, all can gain...