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Show Senator Bennett Offers Bill to Protect Woolmen Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, R-Utah, R-Utah, announced today that the Senate Finance Committee has agreed to attach his bill to close wool loop-holes of the U. S. Tariff Schedules onto a House-passed tariff bill. "I am hopeful with this favorable action that we can now get a measure passed by Congress to help protect domestic dom-estic wool producers from foreign for-eign producers who, through various means, are escaping present tariff regulations," Sen. Bennett said. "This bill is very important to Utah and other states whose wool producers are threatened by a flood of imports produced abroad at far cheaper costs," he added. The Bennett bill would, among other things, provide that tariff provisions applying to fabrics whose chief value is wool also apply to fabrics whose chief weight is wool. Earlier this month, in response re-sponse to protests by Sen. Bennett Ben-nett over a Bureau of Customs Cus-toms ruling allowing Australian Austral-ian wool to enter the country by what he termed "making an end-run around duty rates," the Bureau initiated steps to alter its ruling and reclassify a large portion of the wool. In question was a process of extracting wool from sheepskins through a boiling process which thus allowed al-lowed the wool to enter the United States at a cheaper rate of duty than wool taken from raw skins. |