I have stressed argurients of equity for workers and of enlightened interest in world prosperity and world peace. The case for an expanded and improved trade adjustment assistance program can be made purely nn grounds of economic selfinterest. The best estimates of the costs of current import restrictions are from $5 to $8 billion. The quota system proposed in the BurkeHartke bill would cost at least twice that. The most generous estimate of the total cost of the program we are proposing. including assistance to workers. firms. and communities. com3s to $300 million a year. Economists at the Brookings Institution have suggested a lower figure.
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