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Mr. M. Stans,
Secretary of Commerce.
from H.. Ambassador,
Washington
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. These may have been of some interest to you.
The charts you left with us were studied very carefully and I think you will be interested, as I was, to sec the enclosed analysis of the United States position which the Board of Trade has prepared using these and other available statistics.
The
implication is that the United States problem is mainly confined to garments and that of total imports of rarments more than half is accounted for by sweaters and shirts. Moreover,
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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