COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-FOURTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

ITEMS 806.30 AND 807.00 OF THE TARIFF SCHEDULES OF THE
UNITED STATES (PROVISIONS FOR SPECIAL DUTY TREAT-
MENT OF ARTICLES ASSEMBLED OR FABRICATED ABROAD)
AND BILLS TO AMEND OR REPEAL SUCH PROVISIONS

70-887

MARCH 24 AND 25, 1976

Printed for the use of the Committee on Ways and Means

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1976

COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS

AL ULLMAN, Oregon, Chairman

Press release of Thursday, February 26, 1976, announcing hearing on the

customs administration of items 806.30 and 807.00 of the Tariff Schedules

of the United States

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Customs Service:

WITNESSES

David R. MacDonald, Assistant Secretary for Enforcement Operations

and Tariff Affairs, accompanied by Leonard Lehman, Assistant

Commissioner of Regulations and Rulings, and Salvatore Cara-

magno, Director of Classification and Values, Department of the

Treasury

Department of Labor:

4

Joel Segall, Deputy Under Secretary for International Affairs.- - - - -

Department of Commerce:

7

Stanley Katz, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Economic

Policy and Research.

11

Office of the Special Trade Representative:

Allen H. Garland, Chairman, Trade Policy Staff Committee___

Department of State:

4

William Clark, Jr., Chief, Special Trade Activities and Commercial

Treaties Division__.

4

Adduci, V. J., Electronics Industries Association.........

Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Howard D. Samuel.

171

193

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations,

Nathaniel Goldfinger, Elizabeth Jager, and Raymond Denison...

American Importers Association, 806.30 and 807.00 Committee, Gail T.

Cumins, Ralph Gitkin, and Gerald H. O'Brien.

Apparel Industries Inter-Association Committee, Abraham Eliasberg..

Ault, James W., Baldwin Piano and Organ Co.

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200

Baldwin Piano and Organ Co., James W. Ault and Edwin F. Rains..

Bolin, Dick, U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce... -

200

237

Chaikin, Sol C., International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union..

135

McCloskey and Irving Levine....

Damm, Roger, Electronics Industries Association---.

Committee for 806.30 and 807.00, Alan B. Spurney and Richard Shostak.

Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association, Peter F.

Cumins, Gail T., American Importers Association -

Denison, Raymond, American Federation of Labor and Congress of

Industrial Organizations.-

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51

171

96

Dillman, Everett, El Paso Chamber of Commerce.

211

•Doan, Arthur, U.S.-Mexico Border Cities Association

206

Dubrow, Evelyn, International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.

Electronics Industries Association, V. J. Adduci, Peter R. Levin, and

Roger Damm...

171

Eliasberg, Abraham, Apparel Industries Inter-Association Committee..

El Paso (Tex.) Chamber of Commerce, Everett Dillman and Bill Mitchell.

Emergency Committee for American Trade, Robert L. McNeill..

Foreign Trade Association of Southern California, S. Richard Shostak.......

Gitkin, Ralph, American Importers Association...

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211

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223

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Goldfinger, Nathaniel, American Federation of Labor and Congress of

Industrial Organizations...

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