Session #85 · 1957–59

Speech #850062726

This gap between their costs and ours enabled the Japanese to expand their exports to this country very rapidly. By leaps and bounds they captured larger and larger shares of our market for particular kinds of textiles and textile garments. such as velveteens. ginghams. damasks. blouses. sport shirts. and so forth. The import quota bill that I have Introduced. and those like it. would make it possible to put a quota on the particular textile product in question. such as velveteens or damasks. while leaving alone those that are not in trouble. It is a situation of the kind found In textile imports in the past several years that would make a product eligible for an import quota. The tariff by itself would do very little unless it were raised to a higher point than would be possible under the escape clause.
Keywords matched
quota bill

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Economic threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
HENDERSON LANHAM
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
GA
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
850062726
Paragraph
#1
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