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Sen. Dirksen Pledges AelioK On Textile Import Problem
By ROBERT BARR
WASHINGTON, Congress will not stand idly by without doing something about the textile import prob- lem, Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen (R., Ill.) said Tuesday.
Dirksen made his remarks after he and other Senate Republican policy leaders had a private luncheon with Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans.
And his blunt remark to reporters easily can be con- strued to be much broader and to pledge Congressional sympathy for the American footwear, steel and other in- dustries battling import competition.
Stans never asked for Congressional intervention at this stage but did indicate that securing voluntary import curbing agreements will be tough, according to. Dirksen.
Fairchild News Service® asked the Senator whether Congress would enact a textile quota bill, if no voluntary agreements were forthcoming as a result of the Stand' trade mission,
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that “at the rate we're going we will lose 100,000 jobs a year in textiles for the next six years."
Dirksen added: "You can't think Congress will stand idly by and not do something about it."
Earlier Dirksen has observa- tions on the steel, footwear and lamb import situations also.
Dirksen noted that steel Im- ports are under a voluntary un- derstanding from the foreign steel industry. But he felt this promise for curbing steel imports had been made on a base period that was too big.
Stans informed Dirksen that the approach for textiles and shoes would have to be under- standings with Japan and the other exporting nations.
But Korea and Taiwan are shipping textiles and shoes to the United States, Dirksen point- ed out, adding that will make it a little difficult.
Dirksen described Korea and
Taiwan 25 "our
stepchildren whom we have bottle led."
And the Senate Republican leader made one thing clear: If understandings are not reached on import probleras, then those problenis "are going to be in the lap of congress."
The Senate finance committee has added a lamb import quota plan to a House-passed bill in- volving tariff treatment of race Horses sent abroad temporarily, Dirksen indicated that if this lamb import quota plan is killed, then another similar lamb import plan will be proposed for add- tion to the existing beef quota law,
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