Mr. Chairman. on Wednesday I addressed the committee and gave notice that I would present for your consideration the amendment which the clerk has just read. The effect of this amendment. when enacted. will be to prevent competitive imports. whether they be the product of industrial. of mining. of field. or of farm workers in foreign countries. from being dumped into our American markets at less than our costs of production of competitive articles or commodities. There are some who may contend that the costs of production varies and therefore I have provided that the experts have a choice because where there is the slightest difficulty in ascertaining the costs of production. surely they will have no trouble in finding American wholesale selling price. When the present European and Asiatic wars are endedand we all hope that the end will come soonwe will need to have not flexibility or discretion in the levying of import duties on competitive foreign products so much as we will have to have some very positive assurances that our markets will not be used as the dumping grounds of the warimpoverished nations of the world.