Although Russian importations might not be expected at present, a change of policy might open our doors to these products of slave labor. Another cheap color is this orange II conc. ($0.42), exhibit 5, and I draw your attention to the variance of British prices quoted for export ranging from $0.33% from a jobber to $0.37% in Norway and $0.55 to Turkey. The highest being where they enjoy a considerable preference because of trading agreements and where no American competition has been possible for over a year due to scarcity of dollars. Again I point out the high internal price for Italian production ($0.95) and the wide variance of the German price in their own market ($0.64) and that in Peru ($1.18). Let us look at this xylene light yellow, exhibit 6, where American prices ($1.59) are higher than any except this Dutch offering of $1.80. I draw your attention to British quotations varying all the way from $0.76 and $0.91% from two English producers, to $1.02 for export to Norway. Again we see the Russian offerings, $1.02, a price far below our own. The same is true with this Congo red, exhibit 7, where Russian offerings are $0.54 as compared with the American price of $0.72. Competitive values range all the way from $0.25 from England, $0.41 from Holland, $0.56, a German offering to Pakistan, to $0.61, Belgian offers to France, the same price as German offers to Turkey. This wide variation of prices is shown in these German offerings of fast acid cyanine, exhibit 8, where prices ranged from $0.87 %1⁄2 in Turkey to $1.51 in Peru. With such wide variation, how would it be possible to determine their true price for export and who could judge the price for export to the United States? Would it be the $0.87% price or wouldn't they have to meet this British price of $0.70, one-third below that of the American? The price prevailing within a country of production would not necessarily be the price for export. As you will notice in the case of direct fast scarlet, exhibit 9, sales in Italy were at $1.28 and at $2.34 whereas Italian offerings to Switzerland were at $1.87. This for a product selling in the United States at $2.20 per pound. How would it be possible for the Tariff Commission to apply a rate of duty to be reasonably equivalent to that now applied on American selling price as provided in section 14, paragraph (b), based upon an Italian product at $1.28 per pound and a similar German product at $1.98 per pound? In section 14 of the Customs Simplification Act, provision is made to determine the proper rate to be applied that would give the same. protection as now prevails. As you have seen from these charts, it would mean a different rate for each product for each country and we would then be faced with a question of the most-favored-nation treatment, as a low rate applied to an exportation from Switzerland where living standards are comparable to our own would not provide protection to the exportation of a similar color from England, France or Italy where low labor rates and a low standard of living prevail and where the urgent need for dollar exchange would encourage exportation at low prices. This review of the export price situation on these eight colors illustrates the confused picture of export values and pricing. There are about 1,200 separate and distinct dyes of commercial importance made in this country. In addition, there are hundreds of dyes of |