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Show Frank E. Moss D-Utah expressed ex-pressed pleasure Tuesday with the findings by the US Tariff Commission that Potash Pot-ash imports from Canada, West Germany and France are injurious to US industry and should be subjected to special duties. The Utah Senator had urged urg-ed the commission to give careful consideration to the plight of domestic industry in its deliberations of the case. With two commissioners dissenting, the commission ruled, "an industry in the United States is and is like- ly to be injured by the less than fair value imports. As a result of the commission's determination, potassium chloride from Canada, France and West Germany sold at less than fair value will become subject to special spec-ial dump tfitue's, Senator Moss said. Senator Moss, chairman of the Senate subcommittee for minerals, materials, and fuels fu-els said he will now press for early action on a bill he is co-siponsoring with Senator Sen-ator Joseph Montoya D-N. D-N. M. "The bill would permit up to 30 per cent of domestic production to be imported duty free annually. A tax would be applied to any amount above the 30 percent figure which is the average annual amount imported over the nine year period from 1960 to 1968,)" Senator Moss said. "Potash production is important im-portant to Utah. Total annual an-nual capacity in the State is about 700,000 tons a year. It is estimated that there are 91 million tons of potash deposits at the Great Salt Lake and an estimated 254 million tons are in southeastern south-eastern Utah and southwestern southwest-ern Colorado," he said. |