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On the recordApril 20, 1994
The United States Trade Ambassador Kantor and United States Secretary of Agriculture Espy are now prepared to take action against our neighbors in Canada for shipping an avalanche, a veritable flood of subsidized grain into our country. [...] We ought to expect our Agriculture Secretary, our Trade Ambassador, and this President to stand up and take action. And for the first time in 5 years, we have an administration that has promised us that they will. On the 22d of April, this Friday, if negotiations are not successful--and they apparently are not the administration has-- promised and pledged to take action. I say that is a major step forward. It has taken a couple of years to get somebody in an office downtown who will admit there is a problem. It has taken us a long time after the admission of the problem to get to a solution. We are finally there.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

Editor's note · Context

Addressing unfair trade practices related to subsidized grain imports from Canada.

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