COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS AL ULLMAN, Oregon, Chairman DAN ROSTENKOWSKI, Illinois BARBER B. CONABLE, JR., New York CHARLES A. VANIK, Ohio JOHN J. DUNCAN, Tennessee JAMES C. CORMAN, California BILL ARCHER, Texas SAM M. GIBBONS, Florida GUY VANDER JAGT, Michigan J. J. PICKLE, Texas PHILIP M. CRANE, Illinois CHARLES B. RANGEL, New York BILL FRENZEL, Minnesota WILLIAM R. COTTER, Connecticut JAMES G. MARTIN, North Carolina FORTNEY H. (PETE) STARK, California L. A. (SKIP) BAFALIS, Florida JAMES R. JONES, Oklahoma RICHARD T. SCHULZE, Pennsylvania ANDY JACOBS, JR., Indiana BILL GRADISON, Ohio JOSEPH L. FISHER, Virginia JOHN H. ROUSSELOT, California HAROLD FORD, Tennessee W. HENSON MOORE, Louisiana JOHN M. MARTIN, Jr., Chief Counsel SUBCOMMITTEE ON TRADE CHARLES A. VANIK, Ohio, Chairman SAM M. GIBBONS, Florida GUY VANDER JAGT, Michigan DAN ROSTENKOWSKI, Illinois BILL ARCHER, Texas JAMES R. JONES, Oklahoma BILL FRENZEL, Minnesota JOSEPH L. FISHER, Virginia JAMES G. MARTIN, North Carolina KEN HOLLAND, South Carolina L. A. (SKIP) BAFALIS, Florida ED JENKINS, Georgia RICHARD T. SCHULZE, Pennsylvania THOMAS J. DOWNEY, New York W. HENSON MOORE, Louisiana David B. ROHR, Professional Staff (II) CONTENTS Page Ambassador Robert D. Hormats, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative. Ann H. Hughes, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, and Tim Bennett, Chairman, Interagency Task Force ...... Department of Agriculture, James H. Starkey, Deputy Under Secretary for Department of Commerce, William H. Cavitt, Acting Director, Office of Trade Policy, and Armor Armstrong, Maritime Administration 93 62 73 Alexander, Donald C., Knoll Fine Chemicals, Inc. Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Murray H. Finley ........... Berman's, the Leather Experts, division of W. R. Grace & Co., Lyle Berman and Paul H. DeLaney, Jr.......... Containerhouse Co., Cornelia, Ga., Thomas W. Sikes Cooper, Morton, Cooper Sportswear Manufacturing Co., Inc., and Import Action Committee, National Outerwear and Sportswear Association CTI-Container Transport International, Inc., Edward A. Woolley Council for a Competitive Economy, Richard W. Wilcke.. Dawson, Donald S., Virgin Islands Merchants Association ... DeLaney, Paul H., Jr., Wilson's House of Suede & Leather, and Berman's, the Leather Experts, division of W. R. Grace & Co .......... Dial Import Corp., David Yeston and Peter 0. Suchman ......... Edgar, Hon. Robert W., a Representative in Congress from the State of Pennsylvania.... Elliot & Kastle, Inc., Richard Kastleman and Peter 0. Suchman Evans, Hon. Melvin H., a Delegate in Congress from the Virgin Islands Finley, Murray H., Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union; also on behalf of International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, and United Food and Commercial Workers Union.... Flexi-Van Corp., Edward A. Woolley Francis, Amadeo I. D., Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands Hover Systems, Inc., R. G. Longaker ..... International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, Murray H. Finley ITEL Corp., Edward A. Woolley ......... Kastleman, Richard, Elliot & Kastle, Inc ..... Knoll Fine Chemicals, Inc., Donald C. Alexander and Rolf Spaeth........ Korean Leather & Fur Exporters Association, N. David Palmeter Longaker, R. G., Hover Systems, Inc ... National Outerwear and Sportswear Association, Morton Cooper Nehmer, Stanley, Economic Consulting Services, Inc ......... Palmeter, N. David, Korean Leather & Fur Exporters Association Republic of China (Taiwan), Board of Foreign Trade, David Simon.... Shannon, Hon. James M., a Representative in Congress from the State of Sikes, Thomas W., Containerhouse Co., Cornelia, Ga........... Simon, David, Board of Foreign Trade of the Republic of China (Taiwan), and Page 52 Star Sportswear, Lynn, Mass., James R. Swann..... wearing apparel, including Elliot & Kastle, Inc., and Dial Import Corp Inc.; ITEL Corp.; Transamerica ICS, Inc.; Trans Ocean Leasing Corp.; Flexi Van Corp.; and Xtra, Inc ...... Xtra, Inc., Edward A. Woolley. Yeston, David, Dial Import Corp. 73 52 81 104 104 31 112 114 56 62 104 104 73 AGENCY REPORTS AND WRITTEN COMMENTS ON SPECIFIC BILLS 121 121 59 126 127 132 124 134 H. Con. Res. 383: American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, Ray Denison, letter .... statement ....... U.S. Council for an Open World Economy, David J. Steinberg, statement .. Sea-Land Industries Investments, Inc., Charles I. Hiltzheimer, letter for warded by Congressman Jenkins Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association, statement... U.S. International Trade Commission.......... Department of the Interior... U.S. International Trade Commission....... 137 137 138 143 144 144 146 148 |