Box LG 30

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Documents from case of Morgantown Glassware Guild v. Secretary of Treasury regarding duties on imported glassware; information on duties on hardboard, attached to a piece of hardboard; statement of Joseph C. O'Mahoney; statement of Joseph E. Moody, president of Southern Coal Producers' Association; memorandum from Chester Bowles on Asian policy; various other statements.

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Increase in railroad transportation charges; statement of E. M. Norton, secretary of National Milk Producers Federation, on customs simplification bill (H.R. 6040); duties on imported items; concern that approval of legislation (H.R. 5550) that would provide membership of the U.S. in the Organization for Trade Cooperation would be equivalent to a "back door" entrance to GATT; correspondents include George W. Malone, Cleveland M. Bailey.

Scope and Contents Public Law 85-686 or H.R. 12591 the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1958; copy of H.R. 12591; copies of proposed amendments to H.R. 12591; analyses of proposed amendments; House, Senate, and Conference Reports on H.R. 12591; copies of Trade Agreements Act of 1934, as amended, and Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended; Investigations Under the "Escape Clause" of Trade Agreements in the United States Tariff Commission report; various statistics and other information relating to...

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Tariffs on works of art and exhibition materials; equalization of rights in the distribution of merchandise identified by a trademark, brand, or trade name from the fair trade bill; importation of lead and zinc products; duties on wood mouldings; duties on automobiles; correspondents include Stanley Marcus of Neiman-Marcus, Philbrook Art Center.

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Tariffs on casein; fair trade bill; ingredient labeling; duties on carpet wool; lead and zinc industry; duties on shrimp and shrimp products; tariff reductions; importation of excess products; tariffs on glass; correspondents include Ralston Purina Company, Oklahoma Pharmaceutical Association, Oklahoma Gasoline Retailers Association, Oklahoma Hardware and Implement Association, American Soybean Association, National Retail Furniture Association.

Scope and Contents Stabilization prices for lead and zinc; tariffs on lead and zinc; modification of Trade Agreements Act; Fair Competitive Practices Act; duty-free allowance; draft of a bill to regulate foreign trade and to authorize reciprocal trade agreements; foreign trade; issuance of trading stamps (green stamps) and promotional gifts in the District of Columbia; agricultural exports; fair trade bills; labeling of decorative or imitation hardwood; prohibition of imports from Cuba; duties on sugar used...

Scope and Contents Copy of message from John F. Kennedy relative to the reciprocal trade agreements program; importation of animals for exhibition; taxation of foreign income; Tariff Classification Act; extension of Trade Agreements Act; tariffs on bicycles; duties on electric/electronic watches; Trade Expansion Act; foreign trade policy; duties on cork products; Quality Stabilization Bill or H.R. 11970; correspondents include Thomas H. Kuchel, Buford Ellington, Governor of Tennessee, Emanuel Celler, B. F....

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Interstate highways; household goods moving industry; motor carrier industry; freight rates; federal transportation tax on passenger fares; free and reduced-rate transportation for ministers; consolidation of shipments by cooperative organizations; common carrier trucking industry; passenger train service, correspondents include Reford Bond, Chairman of Oklahoma Corporation Commission, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen of Oklahoma.

Scope and Contents Passenger train service; trip leasing of truck equipment; trucking industry; common carrier provisions relating to natural gas pipelines; regulation of taxi cabs in District of Columbia; bootlegging of automobiles; resolution of American Trucking Associations requesting a Bureau of Motor Carriers; federal transportation tax on passenger fares; federal transportation tax on international travel; freight rates; correspondents include Order of Railway Conductors of Oklahoma, Associated Motor...

Scope and Contents Passenger train service; railroad and barge rates; railroad retirement system and unemployment insurance; National Transportation Week; statement of James F. Pinkney of American Trucking Associations; trucking industry; railroad freight cars; safety devices on track motor cars; airman's certificates; review authority of Civil Aeronautics Board over administrator of Federal Aviation Agency; correspondents include Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway...