Budgets For The Customs Service Itc And Ustr

Author : United States Congress Senate Finance
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331586715
Total Pages : 58 pages
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Download or read book U. S. Customs Service, Ustr, and Itc Budget Authorization for Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 written by United States Congress Senate Finance and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from U. S. Customs Service, Ustr, and Itc Budget Authorization for Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995: Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, June 28, 1993 We need to ensure that the USTR has the funding and the personnel it needs to do the job. As a bipartisan, independent agency with quasi-judicial powers, the ITC serves several important junctions. It determines whether U.S. industries have been injured by unfairly priced or subsidized goods, and whether industries require import relief under our Section 301 law. The ITC's research arm, which now includes an Office of International Competitiveness, provides valuable research analysis to this body and to the executive branch. The U.S. Customs Service is on the front lines, collecting import duties and servicing normal flows of people and commerce across our borders, while working to keep illicit goods, such as drugs, contraband, pirated videos, unsafe food, and other items out of our country. And just as it is important to be diligent in our trade negotiations, it is also important that we have a well-run Customs Service to meet the challenges of today's more global economy. In a sense, our trade policy is only as good as our Customs Service. With the NAFTA and the Uruguay Round ahead, Customs will face many new demands. And I hope to discuss some of those demands this afternoon, as well as the continued need for strong enforcement along the United States-Canada border. But each of these agencies is going to have to do more with less. President Clinton, showing his commitment to cutting our massive budget deficit, has proposed a 3 percent budget cut for every agency, including the ones before us today. I hope to hear from each of you this afternoon about how this budget situation will affect your operations. So with no further delays, I would like now to turn to the ranking member of the committee. Senator Packwood. Opening Statement Of Hon. Bob Packwood, A U.S. Senator From Oregon Senator Packwood. Mr. Chairman, thank you. These are three disparate budgets we consider this afternoon. Customs is a big service. It has over 17,000 employees. USTR has at the moment only 162. And I fear by the time we are done, they are going to have slightly fewer than 162. And they do a magnificent job with a few people. And the International Trade Commission is in between the two. All three are critical. And Customs is next to the IRS as our biggest collector of revenue. USTR and the International Trade Commission are up to their necks in issues that absolutely are hanging large over this country in terms of the effect of our future foreign policy and our economic policy. And I am loathed to see those agencies frankly cut below where they are because I know very well that more cases will be filed and we are going to ask the International Trade Commission for more and more of those Section 332 studies. I can just see it coming. And those are simply not turned out by pushing a computer button. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.