TRADE AGREEMENTS ACT OF 1979

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON FINANCE
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-SIXTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. 1376

A BILL TO APPROVE AND IMPLEMENT THE TRADE AGREEMENTS NEGOTIATED UNDER THE TRADE ACT OF 1974, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

CONTENTS

ADMINISTRATION WITNESS

Strauss, Hon. Robert S., Special Representative for Trade Negotiations.

PUBLIC WITNESSES

Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc., and General Aviation Manu-

facturers Association, George C. Prill, spokesman

American Importers Association, Lee A. Greenbaum, Jr., first vice president,
and president Kemp & Beatley, Inc., accompanied by Gerald O'Brien, execu-
tive vice president, AIA, and David Palmeter, counsel
Ames, Robert S., executive vice president, aerospace, Textron, Inc.
Barber, Jay Roger, New York State commissioner of agriculture; Francis
Robbins, New York Farm Bureau; Clyde Rutherford, chairman of the Dairy-
lea Cooperative of New York; and Arden Tewksbury, representing the
Eastern Dairy Cooperative of New York.......

Barnard, Kurt, executive director, Federation of Apparel Manufacturers.
Carlisle, Charles R., vice president, St. Joe Minerals Corp., on behalf of a
coalition of 33 industrial and labor organizations, accompanied by Stanley
Nehmer, president, Economic Consulting Services.

Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Paul DeLaney, attorney.

Davis, Jane P., chairman, Electronic Industries Association's International

Business Council...

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393

505

487

497

571

527

483

444

516

DeLaney, Paul, attorney, on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce of the United

States

444

Electronic Industries Association's International Business Council, Jane P.

Davis, chairman

516

Emergency Committee for American Trade, Robert L. McNeill, executive vice

chairman...

Falk, Bernard H., president, National Electrical Manufacturers Association
Federation of Apparel Manufacturers, Kurt Barnard, executive director
Greenbaum, Lee A., Jr., president, Kemp & Beatley, Inc., first vice president,
American Importers Association, accompanied by Gerald O'Brien, executive
vice president, AIA, and David Palmeter, counsel

Hahn, Bruce, manager of government affairs for the National Tool, Die &
Precision Machining Association, accompanied by Herbert Liebenson, asso-
ciate director, Small Business Legislative Council

Hampton, Robert N., vice president for marketing and international trade,

National Council of Farmers Cooperatives

449

Healy, Patrick B., secretary, National Milk Producers Federation
Jackson, Prof. John, University of Michigan School of Law

466

537

Lewis, Robert G., national secretary and chief economist, National Farmers

Union..

Langer, Richard D., vice president, Control Data Corp., on behalf of the Joint
Industry Group

519

454

McNeill, Robert L., executive vice chairman, Emergency Committee for Ameri-

can Trade

McLellan, Robert L., chairman, International Trade Committee, National

Association of Manufacturers

458

532

National Association of Manufacturers, Robert L. McLellan, chairman, Inter-

national Trade Committee

458

National Council of Farmers Cooperatives, Robert N. Hampton, vice president
for marketing and international trade.

449

National Electrical Manufacturers Association, Bernard H. Falk, president
National Farmers Union, Robert G. Lewis, national secretary and chief econo-
mist

511

454

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