Romania is one of our primary nonmarket trading partners from whom we chiefly import oil and oil related products. With the oil flow from abroad presently being vulnerable to great uncertainties. and with our hope to be independent of such imports as yet unrealized. the wisdom of improving our ties with Romania is apparent. Finally. passage of House Concurrent Resolution 252 would represent a positive action that would facilitate the emigration of those who wanted to emigrate from Romania. Similar to the intent of the JacksonVanik amendment. an understanding has developed that congressional approval of mostfavorednation status was conditioned upon the prior improvement of the emigration position of Romania. This year. Romania has approved 694 emigration applications to the United States--the highest ever. Further. 3.600 Romanian Jews emigrated to Israel in 1974 and 2.000 more such applications have already been approved for this year. This being so. we have reason to believe that this essential requirement has been met. Moreover. many of us hope to see the further expansion of these emigration policies. Should for some reason this hope not be fulfilled. Congress would have the right not to renew mostfavorednation status next July.
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