U.S. Sugar and Sweetener Policy: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session on H.R. 2172 and Similar Bills, February 27, March 1, and 6, 1979U.S. Government Printing Office, 1979 - 314 páginas |
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15 cents adjustments administration Agriculture average Beet Growers Association beet sugar believe bill cane sugar cents a pound cents per pound Chairman committee Congress consumers cooperative corn growers corn sweeteners cost of production domestic industry domestic producers domestic sugar industry economic export farm farmers foreign sugar fructose GARZA Government Hawaii HJORT import fees imported sugar increase inflation International Sugar Agreement JOHNSON LA GARZA labor provisions loan Malcolm Young market price objective Mauritius million minimum wage percent POTVIN President price of sugar price support processors producing sugar proposed protect quotas raw sugar raw value refined sugar represents Schnittker Secretary SHEEKEY special import duty Sugar Act Sugar Beet Growers sugar beets sugar cane sugar imports sugar legislation sugar policy sugar prices sugarcane support price System of Preferences Thailand Thank TIPTON U.S. sugar United USDA viable domestic sugar WAMPLER Washington Western Sugar Company workers world sugar
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Página 200 - ... Our own concern for these values will naturally influence our relations with the countries of this hemisphere and throughout the world. You will find this country, the United States of America, eager to stand beside those nations which respect human rights and which promote democratic, ideals. Third is our desire to press forward on the great issues which affect the relations between the developed and the developing nations.
Página 217 - American Bakers Association American Frozen Food Institute Associated Retail Bakers of America Association for Dressings and Sauces Biscuit and Cracker Manufacturers...
Página 201 - Three, we ask the executive branch to invoke section 22 of the Agricultural Act of 1935, putting into effect tariff levies or import quotas, or a combination of both, to ensure that imports do not interfere with the conduct of the domestic support program. Section 22 measures, however, should be replaced as soon as necessary legislation can be enacted...
Página 200 - ... (Presidential Documents, Vol. 13 — No. 12, p. 405.) This is precisely what the Congress intended to accomplish with Title V of the Trade Act of 1974, the GSP program. Today industrialized nations such as Japan, the nine Common Market member countries, Canada, the United States and others provide preferential tariff treatment to goods from an agreed-upon list of developing countries of which Thailand is one. Briefly, Mr. Chairman, the case of Thailand is, I believe, illustrative of the great...
Página 200 - The major purpose of the Trade Act of 1974 was to authorize the President to conduct multilateral negotiations on tariffs and nontariff barriers to trade.
Página 19 - States a sum equal to three times the current market value of such excess, which forfeiture shall be recoverable in a civil suit brought in the name of the United States.
Página 86 - Barriers to entry of sugar into the United States is to restrict access rather than to provide for growing access to the United States market of sugar from developing countries. ARTICLE 64 SUPPORT MEASURES 1. "Members recognize that subsidies on the production or marketing of sugar which operate directly or indirectly to increase exports of sugar or to reduce imports of sugar may endanger the fulfillment of the objectives of this Agreement.
Página 61 - Regardless of any benefit to society, these expenditures produce no monetary return to our industry. Also, many foreign governments subsidize and determine the size of their sugar industries without regard to usual economic factors. US taxpayers even provide aid to our competitors through low-cost loans from the Export-Import Bank of the United States and the World Bank.
Página 252 - Congress, and the honorable congressional delegation representing the State of Idaho in the Congress of the United States.
Página 301 - Xor should it be a vehicle for special import restrictions on sugar.eontaining end products such as candy. I support US participation in the sugar stabilization agreement. But a sugar adjustment strategy along the lines recommended above should be the framework for such participation. Whatever program is adopted in this policy area, the government should tell the American people every year (the legislation should so require) what its sugnr program costs the consumer and the nation and how it serves...