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Volume #23 - 224. | |
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CHAPITRE I ÉTATS-UNIS | |
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3E PARTIE QUESTIONS ÉCONOMIQUES | |
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SECTION
I RESTRICTIONS DES ÉTATS-UNIS SUR LES IMPORTATIONS | |
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DEA/6780-40 |
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L'ambassadeur aux États-Unis au secrétaire d'État aux Affaires extérieures | |
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TELEGRAM 1834 CONFIDENTIAL. IMMEDIATE. |
Washington,
le 12 octobre 1956 |
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GROUNDFISH FILLETS; TARIFF COMMISSION REPORT | |
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Today the Tariff Commission released its escape clause report on groundfish fillets. The Commission unanimously found that as a result in part of the customs treatment reflecting the concession granted in GATT on January 1, 1948, groundfish fillets are being imported into the USA in such increased quantities, both actual and relative, as to cause serious injury to the domestic industry. The Commission recommends that the duty on the imports that enter under tariff quota be increased from 1 7/8 cent per pound to 2.8125 cents per pound and that the duty on imports that enter in excess of the quota be increased from 2 1/2 cents per pound to 3.75 cents per pound. 2. I assume that you will be instructing me to submit a note couched in the strongest terms to the USA Government protesting against this increase in duty on imports of groundfish fillets and that this be done at the earliest possible time. 3. As you know, the President is permitted by law to withhold his decision for 60 days. However, due to political pressures that may be brought to bear before the election, it is quite possible that he may be induced to make his decision at a very early date. So we may not have much time to get our protest in. 4. To make sure that the importance to Canada of this decision is brought home to the White House, I would propose, after presenting the note, to call personally on Gabriel Hauge, the President's principal adviser in these matters, so as to give all the emphasis we can to the serious effect that the implementation of these recommendations would have on our commercial relations. [A.D.P.] HEENEY
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