Sugar: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 11730U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962 - 552 pages |
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acreage acres Alliance for Progress allocation allotment amended American amount average basic quota basis beet sugar bill Brazil Brazilian British Honduras British West Indies cane cents CHAIRMAN Colombia committee commodities CONGRESS THE LIBRARY consumers consumption crop Cuba Cuba's Department of Agriculture dollars domestic sugar Dominican Republic economic fair and reasonable farm farmers foreign countries global quota Government growth Guatemala Haiti imports increase India interest KEMP labor Latin America LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Mauritius ment Mexico million tons Missouri NEMIR Nicaragua payments percent Peru Philippines plant POAGE present production proposed Puerto Rico purchases RAMOS raw sugar raw value refined represent Secretary FREEMAN short tons statement Sugar Act sugar exports sugar industry sugar legislation sugar producers sugar program sugar quota sugar workers sugarbeet sugarcane suppliers surplus Thank tion tons of sugar trade U.S. market U.S. sugar United wages Western Hemisphere wheat world market
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Page 525 - Such products shall also be exempt from all other duties or charges of any kind imposed on or in connection with importation in excess of those imposed on the date of this Agreement or those directly and mandatorily required to be imposed thereafter by legislation in force in the importing territory on that date.
Page 161 - SEC. 202. Whenever a determination is made, pursuant to section 201, of the amount of sugar needed to meet the requirements of consumers, the Secretary shall establish quotas, or revise existing quotas — (a...
Page 349 - To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery...
Page 167 - ... national sugarbeet acreage requirement') on the basis of the acreage history of sugarbeet production and the ability to produce sugarbeets for extraction of sugar in each State. (3) In order to make available acreage for growth and expansion of the beet sugar industry, the Secretary, in addition to protecting the interest of new and small producers by regulations generally similar to those heretofore promulgated by him pursuant to this Act, shall reserve each year from the national sugarbeet...
Page 111 - Make it possible, as a matter of national security, to produce a substantial part of our sugar requirements within the continental United States without the consumer penalizing device of a high protective tariff; (2) assure US consumers of a plentiful and stable supply of sugar at reasonable prices...
Page 490 - The CHAIRMAN. If there are no further questions, the committee will stand adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.