Mr. President. as an original sponsor of the legislation which resulted in the Meat Import Act of 1964. I wholeheartedly support this recommendation and urge that the quota system be immediately implemented. Since the import quota law was enacted. it has worked well for us to the benefit of our livestock industry until June of 1972 when President Nixon ordered that all import restrictions under the act be suspended. This action was. indeed. a mistake. It is even more important now that the import quota system be reinstated because of the world market situation. Every meatconsuming nation in the world except the United States. including Japan. Canada. and the European economic communities. have imposed restrictions on the importation of meat in order to protect their domestic industries.
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