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BY: GENERAL GOVERNMENT CUMMITTEE - Robert W. Page, Chairman
RE: IMPACT OF FUREIGN CUMPETITIuN UN THE STEEL INDUSTRY
AND THE ECuNuMY IN GENERAL
• TU THE uAKLAND CuUNTY BuARD tuF CUMMISSIuNERS
Mr. Chnirmen, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, several total industries in soft goods and electronics have been allowed
to all but disappear from this country, taking with them their tax bases and Mx-producing
lobs; and
WHEREAS, the major underlying cause of the destruction of these industries is the
unrrzir foreign competition by which many other governments help create full employment for
their citizens; and
WHEREAS, the basic steel, steel specialty and the steel wire industries of this
country are the latest to feel the deep bite of unfair foreign cempeti-tir,n, In Michigan alone,
an estimated 25,000 direct lobs and an equal number of indirect lobs which depend on a
• healthy steel industry are leopardizerl; and
WHEREAS, foreign stcei-prodcing countries consume only some thirty-percent
domestically, the surplus on U.S, markets at below cost. Their governments :TA.-.`
the losses - thus, an apparent delibcrnte plan to exploit and undermi-o the only free market in
the wrd- the United States; and
WHEREAS, the provisions of thc 1974 Trade Act which allow for the nr?ri-otif.Th of
an Orderly ,,Aorketing Agreement are not adequate to forestall the immediate short term threat
to the steel industries.
qW THEREF )Ri,,,.. BE IT RESe-)L,‘,1
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- • urges the President anr.i Congress to take c
, that the Yaklond County Board of Commissioners
of the seriousness of the unfair import problem
American economy to the stability it has traditionally e
Mr. Chairman, the General Government Committee, by Robert W. Page, Chairman,
moves the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT CUMMITTEE
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R bell- W. Page, Clairrnan
March 23, 1978
Moved by Page supported by Aaron the resolution be referred back
to the General Government Committee.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.