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reductions.
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QUESTION:
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Mr. Secretary, I believe you mentioned
health. Is there any UN criteria in Europe and Asia against
the health hazard of tobacco?
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SECRETARY STANS: No, the subject of health
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hazard of tobacco was never mentioned on our trip.
QUESTION: That doesn't impede our exports?
SECRETARY STANS: It doesn't impede the exports
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any more than it slows up smoking here.
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QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, you mentioned your
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going to be off on the President's program in a couple of
weeks to deal with textiles. Can you tell me about the
alternatives you will be considering?
SECRETARY STANS: No, I don't think we can at this
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The first is, and
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our preferred alternative is a multilateral organization-
under the auspices of GATT in Geneva in which we would bring.
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together all the countries interested in the textile markets
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and negotiate an arrangement similar to the one that now
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exists for cotton textiles.
We would ask that the cotton type of agreement
would be executed to cover textiles made from wool and from
man made fibers. Our problem is particularly acute with
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respect to textiles made from man made fibers which increased
in imports, 54 percent last year and are going up again the
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