Show Examine Beef Imports Sen Bennett Sen Wallace 1 F Bennett R fl Utah recently asked the Secre tary of oC Agriculture to take a ahard ahard hard careful cardul look at rising im Im- Im Imports ports of oC beef so the Government can prepare to curtail the im ports detrimental to the Ameri Ameri- American can cattle industry The Utahn reported that fig Cig ures indicate ale th that t during curing the month of oC J June ne a total 1002 m million pounds of bt foreign fresh Cresh chilled and Cr frozen zen beef veal and mutton mutt n w were re Imported into the United St States t s THIS TOrALfs almost doub le Ie the monthly average of last year and andr r represents the largest Imports of any month since en en- en enactment of the meat Im port control I law w he said If this monthly rate fate continues at m million pounds the total meat for 1966 will willbe willbe be about In m million pounds or slightly lower than the reo re- record cord level of 1 b billion pounds in 1963 lIe said Our American cattle producers remember r only too well the results of those heavy 1963 imp imports That near eco disaster when the floor fell Cell out from under the cattle markets should not be repeat repeat- repeated ed cd SEN BENNETT said that the meat import control law provid provid- provides es that the Secretary of tore ture shall estimate every three months the quantity of beef veal and mutton likely to be Imported If this quantity of ex- ex expected ex Imports is greater than the amount established by a stat statistical formula written Into the statute the President is dir to proclaim pro l m a limit on the he quantities les of such meats that will be admitted during that year If IC the increasing ever im im- im ports continue the Secretary of Agriculture and the President may well have to implement the 1964 law so that our Western cattlemen cattlemen will not suffer another another er economic setback as occur occur- occurred red in 1963 1903 Sen Bennett said We simply must not have ann ano- otter 30 per pel cent drop in domes domes- domestic domestic tic beef prices as occurred then |