[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14375]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                ILLEGAL STEEL IMPORTS IS NOT FREE TRADE

  (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, just knowing that the President would 
veto any steel quota bill, in 1 month steel imports from Japan rose 40 
percent; from South Korea 50 percent; from Brazil 80 percent; from 
Indonesia 140 percent; and from Russia, our good buddies in Russia, 550 
percent increase, in 1 month. Unbelievable. While the administration is 
getting tennis elbow over there for patting themselves on the back for 
killing the steel bill, foreign companies are getting hernias all over 
America unloading steel on American docks.
  Beam me up. If this is free trade, I am a fashion leader.

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