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WASHINGTON.-A five-nan Japanese textile mis- sion coming here to discuss the textile import problem next week can be assured of getting a specific proposal in detail, U. S. officials emphasize.
But Stanley Nehmer, Deputy Assistant Secretary of . Commerce for Resources, said if the Japanese are think- ing in terms of a selective category-by-category proposal, they can forget it.
"We do not envisage making such a proposal to the Japanese. This is not a solution to the textile import problem," Nehmer told DNR.
To explain the U. S. position and proposal to the Japa- nese, the United States will have on hand specialists from six departments and agencies. Included besides Nehmer will be two men with long backgrounds in the history and details of the textile import problem..
They are Philip H. Trezise, Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, who will open the meeting, and Herbert Blackman, Administrator, Bureau of Inter- national Labor Affairs, in the Labor Department.
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These three probably have more experience with the textile problem than anyone else in Government.
Trezise is no stranger to the Japanese mind. He for- merly was director of the U. S. Operations Mission, Tokyo, and Minister for Economic Affairs. He also has served in other Embassy posts in Tokyo and long has been in- volved in textile negotiations and worked on the last cot- ton textile bilateral agreement.
Trezise recently negotiated the auto parts agreement with Canada. He is considered "very capable" and is much respected by his colleagues.
Nehmer worked with Trezise on the last bilateral cot- ton textile agreement and has also been deeply involved in the textile problem as well as other trade matters for years. He came to the Commerce Department from the State Department.
From 1962 to 1965 Nehmer was the U. S. representa- tive to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, cotton textiles committee. He also has served as the U. S. representative on similar committees, including that of U. S. representative to OECD textiles committee, on which he still serves.
Nehmer is chairman of several Interagency textile committees here. And he served as Commerce Secretary
rice Stans' principal textile adviser on his recent tours of Europe and Asia.
Nehmer probably knows as much in minute detail
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about the textile problem and the history of pacts the United States has negotiated as any other man in Wash- ington.
The other key figure on the U. S. delegation, Black- man, was formerly with the Commerce Department. He worked with Nehmer on the first cotton textile bilateral pact. Nehmer was with the State Department at the time.
"Herb has been involved in this problem as long as I have," Nehmer said.
Blackman was a member of the United States dele- gation to the Kennedy Round of tariff negotiations and the cotton textile committce of GATT. He has served on other international meetings and is no newcomer to the problem at hand.
Other United States members include Julius L. Katz, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Resources and Food Policy; Theodore R. Gates, Assistant Special Representative, and Murray M. Chotiner, General Counsel, Office of the Special Trade Representative; Rob- ert Pelikan, ilirector, Office of International Economic Activities, Treasury Department, and Glenn Tussey, di- rector, Cotton Division, Foreign Agricultural Service, Ag- riculture Department.
These men will be explaining and representing reasons why the Japanese should accept the United States bilater- al approach for limiting imports of textiles made from wool and synthetic fibers.
When Stans was in Tokyo in late July, the United States toward the end of his trip put forth a proposal to the Japanese for a bilateral approach in reaching agree- ment to limit wool and man-made fiber textiles.
But officials here explained there was not enough time left to go into detail. Stans suggested a follow-up meeting to give more details, and that's what next week's meet- ing is all about.
But United States officials said details to be placed on
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