[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 81 (Thursday, June 23, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 23, 1994]
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              MEXICAN PIPE COMPANY STEALING AMERICAN JOBS

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, Japan is teaching, teaching, and 
teaching, and Mexico is learning, learning, and learning.
  Tamsa, a Mexican pipemaker, is stealing the pipe business in America. 
American companies say that this Mexican pipemaker is selling pipe so 
low it looks like a loss leader at a fire sale. That is called dumping 
below production costs, killing American jobs.
  And what does Congress do? Congress sits here and rearranges the deck 
chairs on the biggest Titanic we have ever seen, called NAFTA. Free 
trade with Mexico? This isn't free trade; this is a joke. And the laugh 
all over the world, especially in Mexico, is on the United States 
Congress.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of this tragic comedy.

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