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 CIS NO: 89-H721-9
 TITLE: Pacific Rim Timber Trade Issues: Tariff and Non-Tariff Barriers
     Facing the Northwest Timber Products Industry.
 SOURCE: Committee on Small Business. House
 DOC TYPE: Hearing                   COLLATION: iii+157 p.
 DATE: Aug. 15, 1988
 CONGRESS-SESSION: 100-2             SUDOC: Y4.Sm1:100-60
 ITEM NO: 1031-A; 1031-B
 LC CARD NO: 88-603269               MC ENTRY NO: 89-7197

 Committee Serial No. 100-60. Hearing in Portland, Oreg. before the Subcom
 on Regulation and Business Opportunities to examine the status of and
 possibilities for increasing U.S. forest products exports to Asia-Pacific
 Rim area countries in light of existing tariff and non-tariff barriers to
 such trade.
 Includes:
 -- Gorte, Ross W. (CRS), "U.S. Wood Exports to the Pacific Rim" Aug.
     11, 1988, with tables (p. 135-157).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Forest products exports to Asia-Pacific Rim countries,
     trade barriers
 DESCRIPTORS (and special content notations): SUBCOM ON REGULATION AND
     BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES. HOUSE; FOREIGN.TRADE; PACIFIC OCEAN AREA;
     LUMBER AND LUMBER INDUSTRY; TARIFFS; CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
     ("U.S. Wood Exports to the Pacific Rim"); STATISTICAL DATA: FOREIGN
     TRADE ("U.S. Wood Exports to the Pacific Rim"); IMPORT RESTRICTIONS;
     NEGOTIATIONS; JAPAN; PORTLAND, OREG.; ASIA

 89-H721-9 TESTIMONY NO: 1          Aug. 15, 1988 p. 3-6, 50-59
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     REITEN, RICHARD G. (Director, Oregon Department of Economic
        Development)
 STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION: Efforts to increase U.S. forest products exports
     in light of trade barriers.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Forest products exports to Asia-Pacific Rim countries,
     trade barriers
 DESCRIPTORS: FOREIGN.TRADE.PROMOTION; OREGON DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC
     DEVELOPMENT

 89-H721-9 TESTIMONY NO: 2          Aug. 15, 1988 p. 6-21, 60-96
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     LOVETT, STEPHEN M. (Vice President, International Trade Council,
        National Forest Products Association (NFPA))
     WOLFF, ALAN W. (Counsel, Pacific Rim Market Access Project, NFPA)
     DONNELLY, ROBERT L. (President, Contact Lumber Co.; also representing
        Industry Sector Advisory Committee for Lumber and Wood Products)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Need to reduce trade barriers in Asia-Pacific
     Rim area countries to increase U.S. forest products exports; potential
     of area countries as expanded markets for U.S. forest products trade;
     summary of barriers to forest products trade in Japan, South Korea,
     China, and Taiwan; recommendations for U.S. negotiations on reduction of
     forest products trade barriers.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Forest products exports to Asia-Pacific Rim countries,
     trade barriers
 DESCRIPTORS: KOREA, SOUTH; CHINA, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC; TAIWAN; NATIONAL
     FOREST PRODUCTS ASSOCIATION; CONTACT LUMBER CO.; INDUSTRY SECTOR
     ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR LUMBER AND WOOD PRODUCTS

 89-H721-9 TESTIMONY NO: 3          Aug. 15, 1988 p. 21-33, 97-107
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     KELLEY, MICHAEL T. (Deputy Assistant Secretary, Basic Industry,
        Department of Commerce)
 STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION: Status of U.S. forest products exports to
     Asia-Pacific Rim countries; issues involved in negotiations on reducing
     trade barriers.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Forest products exports to Asia-Pacific Rim countries,
     trade barriers
 DESCRIPTORS: DEPARTMENT.OF.COMMERCE

 89-H721-9 TESTIMONY NO: 4          Aug. 15, 1988 p. 33-45, 108-134
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     ANDERSON, ROBERT G. (Director, Market Research and Economic Services,
        American Plywood Association)
     EPLEY, MALCOLM, JR. (Vice President, Western Wood Products
        Association)
     HERTRICH, ADOLF (President, Vanport Manufacturing)
     KUEHNE, M. J. (President, Northwest Independent Forest Manufacturers)
     GLERUM, ROLF D. (Executive Director, Pacific Rim Trade Association)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Perspectives on tariff and non-tariff barriers
     to forest products trade in Japan and other area countries; negative
     impact on Northwest U.S. sawmills productivity of Asia-Pacific Rim
     country barriers to finished forest products trade.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Forest products exports to Asia-Pacific Rim countries,
     trade barriers
 DESCRIPTORS: INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTIVITY; AMERICAN PLYWOOD ASSOCIATION;
     WESTERN WOOD PRODUCTS ASSOCIATION; VANPORT MANUFACTURING; NORTHWEST
     INDEPENDENT FOREST MANUFACTURERS; PACIFIC RIM TRADE ASSOCIATION