Mr. M. Stans, Secretary of Commerce.
from II.. Ambassador,
Washington
Mr. Carlit.
I understand that when you went
to London in Lay you handed Tony Crosland a set of charts illustrating
the growth of United States imports of textiles in recent years.
Tony
apparently responded by handing you a set of charts which the Board of Trade had prepared in rather a hurry. Those
Am Stewart-
if this letter
t
To Mr. Stane.
I shall be surprised
or anything like it, is sent.
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The attached draft letter to Mr. M. Stans should have been included with the document sent under cover of Mr. 3. Stewart's minute of 20th June 1969 entitled
U.S. Imports of Cotton Textiles
and I apologise for having omitted it.
Ron Townen R. Townley (Mrs.),
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I/S to Mr. D. Dɩewart.
23rd June 1969.
to you.
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imports of these two items are obviously very high in relation to total consump tion. Indeed, the arithmetic in these two cases is much more impressive than anything on the American case we have
seen before.
The problem of imported shirts and sweaters is not, of course, unique to the United States. In the United
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