Speech #910314165

They. have expanded their domestic price support programs. and use the Variable import levy to protect those programs rather than absolute. quotas as we do. .We impose quotas on dairy- products.. keeping imports to something less than 2 percent of domestic consumption.. We keep tight control over sugar imports by. dividing up domestic consumption among domestic producers of cane and beet sugar and a host of foreign countries. At the request of the producing nations we signed the coffee agreement. and impose quotas on imports of coffee as a backstop to the export taxes which the producers use to control their- exports.The cattle producers were left out of this tight control.program for farm products until they came to Washington in 1964 and persuaded the Congress to enact. and the President to sign..the meat quota law. Public Law 88482. This sets an annual trigger point for meat imports based on estimates of the Secretary of Agriculture as to the supply needed to supplement domestic production to meet consumer demand.