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Show ' cape clause permits. "So we simply cannot permit evep more serious and widespread wide-spread injuries from additional tariff reductions. Such reductions would be clearly ' unwarranted until the economy is in feigner 'gear and making steady annual gains and employment is up again," he said. v ' ! " King Opposes Cuts In U.S Tariffs Rep. David S. King has joined 40 colleagues in offering a resolution reso-lution which opposes any moves by American representatives to the international trade conference confer-ence in Geneva to make further reductions in U.S. tariffs over the next 18 months. "While I wholeheartedly support sup-port the reciprocal trades principle," prin-ciple," Congressman King asserted, as-serted, "I am convinced that until un-til our economy shows a marked improvement, we cannot riskj further injury to our domestic industries and labor force." This resolution, he said, ex-! presses the sense of the House in . opposition to tariff cuts of as much as 20 per cent which thei reciprocal trades act of 1958 authorized U.S. trade conference negotiators to make during the four-year term of the act. "The effect of the resolution would end, of course, when the act itself expires next year," Mr. King observed. "The economy has suffered some serious setbacks since 1958, the picture on imports and exports has changed appreciably since that act was passed," he said. "The competition from foreign I products has increased sharply in many American markets, and many American industries have suffered serious injury from this competition because the escape clause in the law has not given them the protection it was meant to give them. "The escape clause has produced pro-duced Tariff Commission findings find-ings of serious injury to some 90 American industries, but the last administration invoked remedies re-medies to protect these industries in only a dozen cases," the congressman con-gressman said. j For example, he said, the lead-zinc lead-zinc mining industry has twice received unanimous Tariff Commission Com-mission findings of serious injury, in-jury, but has never received administration ad-ministration relief which the es- |