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Robert C. Byrd: “We have already seen much of the manufacturing base of this country transferred abroad, and millions of American jobs…”

On the recordMay 8, 1986
We have already seen much of the manufacturing base of this country transferred abroad, and millions of American jobs have been exported abroad because Japan has not opened its markets to fair competition by American products.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
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May 8, 1986

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Speaking on the economic summit and Japanese trade practices.

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