Industry group rips Reagan's plan for tariff-cutting talks. (textile - apparel)

Daily News Record, July, 1986 by Schwartz, Lloyd

Industry Group Rips Reagan's Plan for Tariff-Cutting Talks WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Textile, apparel and fiber industry representatives Wednesday balked at Reagan Administration plans to move swiftly toward convening a new round of unrestricted multilateral tariff-cutting negotiations.

They particularly objected to granting such tariff-slashing authority applicable to import-sensitive products emphasizing that the textile-apparel trade deficit surged last year.

Importer-exporter groups just as strongly endorsed the proposed new bargaining round and recommended that Congress avoid "unilateral solutions to (trade) problems which can be resolved only through multilateral agreements and codes of conduct."

At the same time, Sen. Max Baucus (D.,...

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