Speaker. in the interests of American agriculture as a whole. the United States must be extremely cautious about the restrictions we place on the flow of agricultural products into this Nation. We have made a major step forward in insuring American access to foreign markets in the agricultural concessions of the Kennedy round of tariff negotiations just completed in Geneva. and it would accomplish little if we take protectionist action at home which would halt the momentum toward freer world markets. However. the inordinate increase in dairy products coming into the country. in evasion of the existing quota system. necessitates action in the interests of both American producers and consumers. and I am therefore introducing today legislation to revise the system of regulating dairy imports. This legislation is designed to insure an adequate fluid milk supply. to maintain stable dairy prices. and to promote for the dairy producer in this country an adequate return on his investment. Mr.
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