Derrick defends ATMI method on import penetration stats. (Butler Derrick; American Textile Manufacturers Institute)

Daily News Record, June, 1987 by LaRussa, Robert

Derrick Defends ATMI Method on Import Penetration Stats WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Rep. Butler Derrick (D., S.C.), responding to a challenge issued by the chairman of the House Trade Subcommittee, this week defended the American Textile Manufacturers Institute's method of compiling import-penetration figures for the domestic textile and apparel markets.

In a letter sent Tuesday to subcommittee chairman Sam Gibbons (D., Fla.), Derrick argued that discrepancies between ATMI's statistics and those compiled by the Department of Commerce cannot be blamed on "double counting," as Gibbons had charged during textile bill hearings.

Last week, on the final day of subcommittee hearings, Gibbons complained that ATMI figures for import penetration of the domestic...

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