TEXTILE INDUSTRY AND FABRICS

Addresses

Currency Fluctuations and International Trade in Textiles and Apparel—U.S. Experience: Stanley Nehmer, 36446-36449 [13DE]

Advertisements

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

Compact of Free Association: approve (H.J. Res. 187), 22426-22428 [1AU]

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]

———enact (S. 680), 24664 [23SE]

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]

Congress Reflects Public Will, 23464 [11SE]

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]

Greenville Plant To Close, 19285 [17JY]

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

Imports Are Killing the Textile Industry, 23675 [12SE]

Japan to the Barricades—Tokyo Exerts Subtle Pressure To Slow Textile Inflows, 25310 [30SE], 25615 [2OC]

Japan's Protectionism Diverts Asian Goods to the U.S., 4683 [6MR]

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 More Textile Protection, 15039 [10JN]

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]

South Carolina Closings Will Slash 350 Jobs, 20868 [29JY]

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

Stevens Selling Fourth of Company, 18322 [10JY]

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

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

Textile Imports, 19969 [23JY]

Textile Industry Is Experiencing Good, Bad Times, 16200 [19JN]

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

Textiles Defends Its Last Bastion, 20698 [25JY]

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

Trade Issue Hits Home in a Queens Community, 34819 [5DE]

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]

Wal-Mart Flys the Flag in Import Battle—Prods U.S. Producers With Favorable Terms, 8605 [22AP]

Wal-Mart's ``Buy American'', 8606 [22AP]

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)

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

Cotton: establish acreage base and program yield system (see S. 1802)

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

———temporary extension of price support program (see H.R. 3454)

Domestic industry: collection of statistics (see H.R. 2721)

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: duty-free on certain machines (see H.R. 1849)

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

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

Foreign trade: import duties allocated to fund domestic research on modernization of machinery (see H.R. 2871)

———import growth rates consistent with objectives of the multi-fiber arrangement (see S. 680; H.R. 1562)

Home labor: permit certain (see S. 665)

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)

Multi-Fiber Arrangement: consideration of H.R. 1562 to achieve objectives and promote recovery of domestic industry (see H. Res. 325)

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

Tariff Schedules of U.S.: amend schedule 3 (see S. 1058; H.R. 2338)

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

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 imports: President Reagan, 17324 [26JN]

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

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

———Representative Jenkins, 31721 [13NO]

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 and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act (S. 680): Economic Policy Council, 17325 [26JN]

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]

Locations of J.P. Stevens & Co., Inc. plants up for sale, 18322 [10JY]

Memorials of legislature

Alabama, 1507 [31JA]

Guam, 4452 [5MR]

South Carolina, 9938 [30AP], 10023 [1MY], 16123 [18JN]

Messages

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

Veto of H.R. 1562 Relative to Imports: President Reagan, 37523 [18DE]

Papers

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

Petitions

Employment: Sylacauga, AL, City Council, 1507 [31JA]

Foreign trade: Democrat Party of Thailand, 22900 [4SE]

———House of Representatives of Thailand, 22900 [4SE]

Textile and apparel industries: Sylacauga, AL, City Council, 612 [7JA]

Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act: Cumberland County, NC, Board of Commissioners, 23846 [16SE]

Textiles: Confederation of Asia-Pacific Chambers of Commerce and Industry, 24179 [18SE]

Press releases

Thurmond greatly disappointed in veto of textile bill, hopes Congress will override, 37523 [18DE]

Remarks in House

Compact of Free Association: approve (H. Res. 235), 21852 [31JY]

Cotton: temporary extension of price support program (H.R. 3454), 25270 [30SE]

Economic conditions: crisis, 6919 [1AP], 7109 [2AP]

Foreign trade: impact of imports, 22939 [4SE]

———import policy, 16452 [19JN]

———multinational bank loans and foreign assistance to fiber or textile producing countries (H.R. 3953), 36805 [16DE]

———U.S.-Japan relations, 29802 [31OC]

Imports: economic impact, 17884 [27JN]

———impact, 24255 [19SE]

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

Military Sewn Products Automation Program: funding, 16478 [20JN]

Military/industrial base: review condition concerning, 16813 [21JN]

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

Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act: enact, 13845 [24MY], 20697 [25JY], 22760 [1AU], 23675 [12SE]

———enact (H.R. 1562), 5511, 5544, 5562-5568 [19MR], 5930 [20MR], 7109 [2AP], 10215 [2MY], 15038 [10JN], 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], 34819 [5DE], 35175 [9DE], 36775 [16DE], 38665 [19DE], 38841 [20DE]

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

———enact (H.R. 2871), 17555 [26JN]

Textile and Trade Enforcement Act: enact (S. 680), 27320 [10OC]

Textile Trade Act: enact, 33696 [3DE]

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

Uniforms: production capacity of apparel industry, 16478 [20JN]

Velveteen: pricing, 9200 [24AP]

Wools: eliminate duty on certain (H.R. 1696), 6119 [25MR]

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]

China, People's Republic of: imports, 18385 [10JY]

Cotton: establish acreage base and program yield system (S. 1802), 29489 [29OC]

Economic conditions: crisis, 27648 [16OC]

———promote recovery, 28933, 28946, 28947-28966 [24OC]

Employment: facilitate home labor (S. 665), 5206 [14MR]

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]

———effects of imports on domestic industry, 20868 [29JY]

———impact, 18321 [10JY], 22251 [1AU]

———impact of imports, 19939 [23JY], 20332 [24JY], 28882 [24OC], 30266 [1NO], 33848-33850 [3DE]

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

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

———labor costs and promotion program of exporting countries, 36446 [13DE]

———policies, 29095 [25OC]

———Presidential veto of H.R. 1562 limiting imports, 37522 [18DE]

———Presidential veto of H.R. 1562, import restrictions, 37563 [18DE]

———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]

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], 19065 [16JY]

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

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, 38379 [19DE]

———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), 14865 [7JN], 16200 [19JN], 17324 [26JN], 19284 [17JY], 19968 [23JY], 23016 [9SE], 30495, 30496 [5NO]

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

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.: Buy-America campaign, 8605 [22AP]

Wool Act: reauthorize, 19032 [15JY]

Reports

Designate National Buy American Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 194), 24359 [19SE]

Designate National Needlework Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 201), 25171 [26SE]

Designate National Sewing Month: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 173), 23620 [12SE]

Economic Recovery of U.S. Textile and Apparel Industry: 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]

Enforcement of Textile and Apparel Import Quotas: Committee on Government Operations (H. Rept. 99-305), 26481 [7OC]

Request President To Designate Made in America Month: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 206), 25171 [26SE]

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]

U.S. Textile—Fabric of America: John Gregg, 16747 [20JN]

U.S. Trade Policy: Bob Eisen, 34381 [4DE]

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]

Foreign imports as a percentage of total U.S. sales, 4682 [6MR]

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. agriculture export figures, 33706 [3DE]

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

Testimonies

Crisis in the Textile Industry: Representative McMillan, 23273 [10SE]

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]

H.R. 3454, extend certain provisions of law of the Agricultural Act, 25271 [30SE]

S. 665, facilitate industrial labor done in home, 5207 [14MR]

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.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]