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- 16 - also subject to export controls administered by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration. Regulation of import competition and relief from unfair foreign trade practices are divided among five agencies: USTR; Commerce; Labor; the International Trade Commission (ITC)
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-17 - or substantially injuring an efficiently and economically operated U.S. industry, preventing the establishment of a U.S.
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- 18 - In the area of foreign investment restrictions on the activities of U.S. firms and multinationals may be as important as the competitiveness of an industry or its efforts to develop export sales.
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- 19 - example of USTR's institutional weakness vis-a-vis other agencies. During the auto import talks, Presidential invervention was necessary to defend USTR's negotiating role from encroachments by the Secretary of State.
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- 20 - economy, in certain key industrial sections, was losing its competitive edge. In 1971, the Commission on International Trade and Investment Policy raised a number of outstanding issues between the U.S.
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-2] - risking the demise of the trade structure of the MIN.
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- 22 - limits of current budgetary restrictions and the financial costs to the Treasury of recent changes in tax policy. Fourth, political expediency to protect so-called declining and growth industries from foreign competition may impel a new coalition in Congress, and selected Executive Branch agencies, to press for "protectionist" policies.
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- 23 - Innovation, R&D, and productivity are the three pillars, as seen by most in government, and the business community, for retaining competitiveness. In the 1950s and 1960s, national defense policies were the vehicle to effect a great many changes in government planning, policies and organization.
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- 24 - PART C "Reciprocal trade" and "fair trade" in the jargon of trade politics have effectively replaced "free trade" as an objective of United States policy. With the political changes in Congress caused by the 1980 elections, there are few Senators or Congressmen who openly defend the basic premises of a liberal trade policy.
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- 25 - Political expediency and trade politics need not be viewed as a pejorative. Representatives for areas of growth with high technology industries have been influenced by business constituencies to Support an activist export policy and to work for the removal of foreign trade barriers.
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