Political Quotes

“last March, I introduced a miscellaneous tariff correction bill (H.R. 3715) to help keep the remaining cathode ray tube and computer display screen manufacturers in the United States. After careful review by the Administration and the Ways and Means Committee, this bill was changed to provide a 3-year duty suspension on monochrome glass envelopes. Also, my office has been given assurances that the permanent removal of the tariff on monochrome glass envelopes will be an item of discussion during the next round of global trade talks. Monochrome glass envelopes are used to make cathode ray tubes that provide the ``light'' behind the computer monitor. When the tariff on monochrome glass envelopes was first proposed, there were American manufacturers of this product. But over the last few years, the final American manufacturer of monochrome glass envelopes decided to get out of the business. Thus, the tariff duty designed to provide a modest level of protection for U.S. makers of monochrome glass envelopes no longer serves its purpose. In fact, the import duty is now hurting the international competitiveness of U.S. cathode ray tube and computer display screen manufacturers.”