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President. I want to address specific remedial action I feel are essential to improve the economic structure beef producers must operate within. First. the most important single action this Government can take is to restore at once the meat import quota system established by the 1964 Meat Import Quota LawPublic Law 88482. Many of my distinguished colleagues have joined me in urging the administration to terminate the suspension of that system. a suspension that most of the time since September 1972 has made the United States the only major meat producing Nation not employing some restraint on meat imports. I have been reluctant. as I am sure most of my colleagues have. to interfere with existing arrangements for international trade or to change the general policy against unilateral actions to restrict meat imports as the EEC.