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Show Boss Joins in Sponsoring , Import Curb on Potash ."" Frank E. Moss, D- !1 airman of the Sen- ;. lllrang Subcommittee, :.,ef joined as a cc- ' f a bill which would : ' a limit on the amount ; which can be im- C :2'nrt0 ,he United Stat-'""')' Stat-'""')' free. C lm total imports of , rountetf to only nine f 'J" of domestic pro-V pro-V J enator Moss said. i-h,1968' however, im-,v im-,v ad jumped astronom-C astronom-C ; 10 53 per cent of do-c do-c cnsumption. , i Ca"ada alone, the C it ""eased from three ,'n I960 to 3,209 tons in ' -t? the result of this ncrease has been fash producers and off of potash min- :-:Jjsh Production is im-'5s im-'5s cl Utah with the ;;'JDU SuIPhur Com-?; Com-?; near Moab, the Jpal Company, pcij,. lvls'on improving brine operation at Wendover, and the Lithium Corporation of America and Chemsalt, Inc. completing facilities fa-cilities at Great Salt Lake.' Total annual production capacity ca-pacity in Utah is reported at 700,000 tons a year. "Among known deposits of potash in Utah are an estimated esti-mated 91 million tons at Great Salt Lake and an estimated es-timated .254 million tons in Southeastern Utah and in Southwestern Colorado," the Senator said. "A two year study by the Department of the Treasury has concluded that Canada, France and West Germany have been 'dumping' potash in the U. S. in violation of the Antidumping Act, 1921. "Therefore this new bill, authored by Sen. Joseph Montoya, New Mexico would permit up to 30 per cent of domestic production to be imported duty free annually. A tax would be applied to any imports above the 30 per cent figure, which is the average av-erage annuar amount' imported im-ported over the nine year period from I960 to 1968, Senator Moss said, |