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Message to the House of Representatives—here are the facts behind H.R. 1562 stripped to their bare essentials, 33849 [3DE]

Agreements

Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act: enact (H.R. 1562), unanimous-consent, 31207 [8NO]

Amendments

Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act: enact (H.R. 1562), 31188 [7NO], 31664-31668, 31670, 31674, 31682, 31684, 31689, 31693, 31697, 31703, 31704, 31706, 31708, 31711, 31713, 31765-31773 [13NO], 33709-33715 [3DE]

Analyses

Impact of Revised Textile Bills, 25608 [2OC]

Articles and editorials

America's Trade Policy, 30334 [1NO]

Another Trade War?, 25611 [2OC]

Berkshire Hathaway Closing Linked to National Policy, 22940 [4SE]

Blind Faith in Free Trade Doesn't Pay, 26495 [7OC]

Budget Deficits Are the Key to Trade, 25610 [2OC]

Burlington To Close Woodfin Plant, 33848 [3DE]

China Threatens To Shut the Trade Door, 25203 [26SE]

Closing of Textile Mills, 16005 [18JN]

Factory's Shutdown Tears Fabric of Small Company Town, 27649 [16OC]

Fiber, Textile and Apparel Imports Myths and Realities, 15527 [12JN]

450 To Lose Jobs at Bath, 15054 [11JN]

Imports a Killer for U.S. Textile Industry, 22251 [1AU]

Japan to the Barricades—Tokyo Exerts Subtle Pressure To Slow Textile Inflows, 25615 [2OC]

Little Consensus on Nature of Change, 27652-27653 [16OC]

Mexico Welcomes U.S. Textile Bill, 28949 [24OC]

Mill Hill Memories, 31896 [14NO]

National Duty—As Free-Trade Bastion, U.S. Isn't Half as Pure as Many People Think, 36775 [16DE]

No Democratic Majority in Assailing Imports, 25225 [26SE]

No Regrets—Faithful Employees of Doomed Bath Mill Have Seen Good, Bad Days, 23017 [9SE]

One Town's Struggle To Fight Textile Imports, 31718 [13NO]

Positive If Overdue Trade Policy, 25609 [2OC]

Protests Over Imports Changing Course of U.S. Trade Policy, 27650 [16OC]

Rip in the Trade Laws, 28945 [24OC]

Save Jobs—Buy American, 19969 [23JY]

Second Thoughts About Textiles, 25610 [2OC]

Sewn Into a Corner, 13662 [23MY]

Soldiers Without Shoes?, 33849 [3DE]

Springs Industries to Lay Off 100 at Kershaw Plant (excerpt), 19939 [23JY]

Subsidies to Foreign Firms Sophisticated, Illusive, 27651 [16OC]

Textile and Apparel Imports (sundry excerpts), 27083 [10OC]

Textile Imports, 19969 [23JY]

Textile Workers Who Want To Work, 33850 [3DE]

Trade Deficit—Good Fixes and Bad, 25610 [2OC]

Trade—Washington Tries To Erect Walls Instead of Minding the Deficit, 25609 [2OC]

250 Jobs Eliminated as Spartan Mills Shuts Weaving Operations (excerpt), 23017 [9SE]

U.S. Should Renounce Free Trade in Favor of Mercantilism, 28944 [24OC]

Weakening the Dollar Is Not Enough, 25610 [2OC]

Bills and resolutions

Agriculture: continuous and adequate supply of fiber (see S. 501; H.R. 1420)

———price support program for upland cotton (see S. 1036)

Apparel: collection of statistics on domestic industry (see H.R. 2721)

Color dyes: terminate provisional listing of certain (see H. Res. 94)

Consumers: supply of food and fiber at reasonable prices (see H.R. 2555)

Cotton: loan rates for 1986-90 crops (see H.R. 2017)

Double-headed latch needles: duty (see S. 783; H.R. 1548)

Executive departments: protect food, fiber, and energy supplies from arbitrary or unsound decisions (see H.R. 1750)

Fibers: ensure abondant supply at reasonable prices (see S. 1051)

Food and fiber: adequate supply at reasonable prices (see S. 908)

Foreign trade: customs treatment of wearing apparel produced in insular possessions of U.S. (see H.R. 2225)

Furs: imports from Soviet Union (see S. 1809)

Hatters' fur: duty free treatment (see H.R. 2273)

Hosiery knitting machines: duty (see S. 782; H.R. 1547)

IMF: restrictions on U.S. contributions based on assistance to certain countries for the production of fiber, textile, or article of apparel (see H.R. 3953)

Industrial homework: facilitate (see H.R. 2815)

National Sewing Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 173; H.J. Res. 222)

Neckties: duty (see S. 1709)

Needles: duty-free treatment of certain (see S. 1178)

———tariff on certain (see H.R. 2166)

Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act: enact (H.R. 1562), provide for consideration of (see H. Res. 286)

Textile industry and fabrics: import growth rates consistent with objectives of the multi-fiber arrangement (see S. 680; H.R. 1562)

Wool: suspension of duty on certain machines (see H.R. 2310)

Wools: duty for certain (see S. 852)

———duty on certain (see H.R. 1696)

Factsheets

Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act (S. 680), 5355 [19MR]

Letters

Economic crisis in the textile industry: Bob Tribble, 7110 [2AP]

Impact of textile imports: Senators Chafee, Danforth, and Roth, 20332 [24JY]

Import quotas: President Reagan (excerpt), 31716 [13NO]

———Representative Jenkins, 31721 [13NO]

Importation of furskins from Soviet Union (S. 1809): Malcolm Baldrige, Sec. of Commerce, 29749 [30OC]

Multifiber arrangement: President Reagan, 25589 [2OC]

Textile and apparel imports: Rudolph Penner (excerpt), 28960 [24OC]

Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act: Embassy of Sweden, 38665 [19DE]

———(excerpt), 16810 [21JN]

———Harold Washington, 27078 [10OC]

———sundry, 27085 [10OC]

———W. Booth Gardner, Governor of Wasington, 27096 [10OC]

Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act (H.R. 1562): ASEAN Washington Committee, Royal Thai Embassy, 19535 [17JY]

———Clayton Yeutter, 33682 [2DE], 33718 [3DE]

———Han Xu, 33685 [2DE]

Textile imports: April Jeffries, 26360 [7OC]

———Bernice Ratliff, 26360 [7OC]

———Cedric Spencer, 26361 [7OC]

———Jacqueline Teal, 26360 [7OC]

———Janie M. McQueen, 26361 [7OC]

———Jason W. Gainey, 26360 [7OC]

———Jessica M. Teal, 26360 [7OC]

———Kevin Cox, 26361 [7OC]

———Marcella A. Burch, 26360 [7OC]

———Nancy Oliver, 26361 [7OC]

———Quincy Pegues, 26361 [7OC]

———Robby Hannah, 26360 [7OC]

———Ronald Edwards, 26360 [7OC]

———Shanica D. Hannah, 26361 [7OC]

———Shineka Merriman, 26361 [7OC]

———Stacy A. Smith, 26360 [7OC]

———Stephanie M. Mills, 26360 [7OC]

———Tasha Little, 26361 [7OC]

———Timothy Johnson, 26360 [7OC]

———Wendy M. Pruitt, 26360 [7OC]

Textile/apparel trade deficit, imports, reach new record levels, 33849 [3DE]

Lists

Cosponsors of the Thurmond textile amendment to S.J. Res. 77 (granting approval of the Compact of Free Association), 25605 [2OC]

Messages

Veto, Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act (H.R. 1562): President Reagan, 37477 [17DE]

Papers

Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Adam Smith, 27082 [10OC]

Remarks in House

Democratic Party: proposed import quotas, 25224 [26SE]

Imports: impact, 24255 [19SE]

Military readiness: annual status report to Congress relative to ability to meet production requirements relative to mobilization, 30489 [5NO]

National Sewing Month: designate (S.J. Res. 173), 24236 [19SE]

Shoe industry: proposed import quotas, 24198 [18SE]

Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act: enact (H.R. 1562), 5511, 5544, 5562-5568 [19MR], 7109 [2AP], 10215 [2MY], 15526 [12JN], 16771 [20JN], 16810 [21JN], 17884 [27JN], 19189 [16JY], 19398 [17JY], 19535 [17JY], 22741 [1AU], 24183 [18SE], 24588 [20SE], 25248 [26SE], 25771 [2OC], 26495 [7OC], 26994 [9OC], 27043 [9OC], 27054, 27055, 27057, 27058, 27059 [10OC], 27118 [22OC]-27121 [10OC], 27357 [10OC], 30334 [1NO], 33681 [2DE], 33702-33735 [3DE], 34061 [3DE], 35175 [9DE], 36775 [16DE], 38665 [19DE], 38841 [20DE]

———enact (H.R. 1562), request for permission for removal of name as cosponsor, 26668 [8OC]

Textile industry: impact of imports, 22939 [4SE]

Textile Trade Act: enact, 33696 [3DE]

Trade Adjustment Assistance Program: extend (H.R. 1926), 24183 [18SE]

Remarks in Senate

Agriculture: price support program for upland cotton and peanuts (S. 1036), 10098 [1MY]

Chesterfield, SC: letters from students on textile imports, 26360 [7OC]

Clothing industry: impact of imports, 33848-33850 [3DE]

Economic conditions: promote recovery, 28933, 28946, 28947-28966 [24OC]

Food and fiber: continuous and adequate supply (S. 501), 22106-22132 [1AU]

Foreign trade: achieve objectives of Multi-Fiber Arrangement, 31664-31669, 31725 [13NO]

———amend import licensing procedure, 31708-31710 [13NO]

———delay application and establish conditions of import quotas, 28967 [24OC]

———impact of imports, 20332 [24JY], 28882 [24OC], 33848-33850 [3DE]

———import quotas, 31670-31686, 31689-31697, 31702-31706, 31711 [13NO]

———policies, 29095 [25OC]

———promote economic recovery of the fiber, textile, and apparel industries, 25574-25625 [2OC]

———require reports on foreign labor practices, 31706 [13NO]

———strengthen trade laws relative to textile and apparel industry (S. 680), 5351-5361 [19MR]

Furs: imports from Soviet Union (S. 1809), 29749 [30OC]

Imports: impact, 15053 [11JN], 16005 [18JN], 25203 [26SE], 31775 [13NO], 33390 [22NO], 38737 [20DE]

Multi-Fiber Arrangement: achieve objectives, 28933, 28946, 28947-28966 [24OC]

National Hosiery Week: observance, 17730 [27JN]

National Sewing Month: designate (S.J. Res. 173), 20326 [24JY]

Neckties: duty (S. 1709), 25176 [26SE]

Shoe industry: impact of imports, 33848-33850 [3DE]

South Carolina: observance of Textile Week, 31896 [14NO]

Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act: effect of passage of S. 680 on consumer prices, 30391 [4NO]

———enact (H.R. 1562), 27548, 27550 [15OC], 28137 [21OC], 31204-31208 [7NO], 31663-31686, 31689-31725 [13NO], 38462 [19DE]

———enact (H.R. 1562), authorize printing, 32170 [14NO]

———enact (H.R. 1562), unanimous-consent agreement, 31234 [8NO]

———enact (S. 680), 19968 [23JY], 23016 [9SE]

Textile and Trade Enforcement Act: enact (S. 680), 13662 [23MY]

Textile industry: economic crisis, 27648 [16OC]

———impact of imports, 19939 [23JY], 33848-33850 [3DE]

Textile industry and fabrics: effects of imports, 22251 [1AU]

———import growth rates consistent with objectives of the multi-fiber arrangement (S. 680), 17709 [27JN]

Wool Act: reauthorize, 19032 [15JY]

Reports

Economic Recovery of U.S. Textile and Apparel Industry: Committee on Rules (H.R. 1562; H. Res. 286) (H. Rept. 99-301), 26108 [3OC]

———Committee on Rules (H.R. 1562; H. Res. 325) (H. Rept. 99-395), 32617 [20NO]

———Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 1562) (H. Rept. 99-293), 25279 [30SE]

Statements

Agricultural Trade, 27092 [10OC]

Distribution of Cost Savings on Imported Apparel: John R. Meinert, 25624 [2OC]

———Monroe H. Greenstein, 25624 [2OC]

Multi-Fiber Arrangement: Senator Danforth, 28943 [24OC]

Multi-Fiber Arrangement objectives, 27096 [10OC]

National Security and the Importance of the Textile Industry: William E. Brock III, Sec. of Labor, 25624 [2OC]

Prospects for Unemployed Textile Workers: John R. Meinert, 25624 [2OC]

Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act (H.R. 1562): Roger Milliken (excerpt), 38841 [20DE]

Studies

U.S. Industry (excerpt), 33723 [3DE]

Synopses

Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act (H.R. 1562), 27108 [10OC]

Tables

Apparel and textile mill products—U.S. producers' shipments, exports, and apparent consumption, 26995 [9OC]

Apparel price comparisons from various countries, 27071 [10OC]

Comparison of prices for domestic and imported apparel, 30391 [4NO]

Cost comparison of U.S and foreign manufactured shirts, 25589 [2OC]

Exchange rate impact on U.S. imports of textiles and apparel, 27071 [10OC]

Impact of Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act provisions, 27084 [10OC]

Major exporting countries under the Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act, 26997 [9OC]

U.S. imports of textiles and apparel, 25608 [2OC]

Testimonies

Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act (H.R. 1526): Eleanor Kuhns, 24183 [18SE]

Texts of

H.R. 1562, Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act, 27118 [10OC]

S. 680, strengthen foreign trade laws relative to textile and apparel industry, 5353-5355 [19MR]

S. 1036, price support program for upland cotton and peanuts, 10098-10105 [1MY]

S. 1709, duties on imported neckties, 25176 [26SE]

S. 1809, permit importation of furskins from Soviet Union, 29749 [30OC]

S.J. Res. 173, designate National Sewing Month, 24237 [19SE]

S.J. Res. 173, National Sewing Month, 23753 [13SE]

Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act: Representative Coble, 19189 [16JY]