Walter B. Jones: “I would like to submit in its entirety for the Record a letter from the United States Business and Industry Council at…”

“I would like to submit in its entirety for the Record a letter from the United States Business and Industry Council at the conclusion of my remarks, but I will be reading from parts of this letter. Mr. Kildee and myself have introduced H.R. 4808, the Unfair Chinese Automobile Tariff Equalization Act. I am going to read several paragraphs from this letter that I will submit. It is a letter to me from Mr. Kevin Kearns, President of the United States Business and Industry Council. ``Dear Representative Jones: On behalf of the 1,500 U.S. companies comprising the U.S. Business and Industry Council, I am writing to express our strong support for H.R. 4808, the Unfair Chinese Automobile Tariff Equalization Act. ``Equalizing U.S. and Chinese tariffs on passenger cars, as the bill would require, is an important and greatly overdue step toward restoring equitable competition in both U.S.-China trade and global automobile trade. Such competition in turn is essential to restoring the health of the U.S.-owned automotive sector, which makes us such a large share of our economy and which has undergirded the American middle class for so many decades.'' I am going to skip on with paragraphs, Mr. Speaker. Again, I have asked that this entire letter be submitted for the Record. ``In fact, according to the latest data available, imports have grabbed two-thirds of the domestic U.S. auto market in 2004, up from 50 percent just 7 years earlier.…”