A survey of the trade in rubber manufactured goods

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Identifikator:: 1848834152

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-240944

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: A survey of the trade in rubber manufactured goods

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Office

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 119 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Document type:: Monograph

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Title:: I. Introduction

Collection:: Economics Books

564 AGRICULTURAL RELIEF Mr. Fort. You have made that very clear. But the point I am getting at is that if it is economically desirable for the Nation to raise a surplus which can not be profitably sold, in one agricultural com- modity why is it not in all? Mr. SEXAUER. Because the very shift can be made, makes it easy bo shift from grain to dairy production as they are needed, and they will not shift 1t to them. Mr. Fort. We have a lot of unused land yet. Should we adopt a program that made it desirable to utilize that land for the production of further surpluses, etther of dairy products or of wheat? Mr. SexaUuER. Only so far as perhaps it might be necessary to strengthen. the economic structure of the country. Mr. Fort. To use further land? Mr. SExAUER. In so far as it might be necessary to strengthen the economic structure. Mr. Fort. In regard to this particular commodity, if any equali- zation fee program should ever be operated as to dairy products, it ought to apply to raw products of milk, should it not? Mr. SExaUER. There is some question as to what is raw material in dairy products. The raw material —fluid milk could not be exported and could not be handled to any extent at all. The only export in the case of dairy products is that of the finished products which could be transported ; and, secondly, you could not make it effec- tive on the raw material; you would have to make it effective on some type of the finished products, possibly that type of finished products which is most easily exportable. Mr. Fort. Then, let us assume the bill has been made operative as to butter and not as to anything else, and that its effect is to make butter a more profitable product to go into. Will that not have a tendency to force more fluid milk into butter and thereby benefit the fluid-milk producer? Mr. Sexaver. True. Mr. Fort. And they would not under your proposal pay any equalization fee? Mr. SexauEer. The mechanical details of the operation of the bill naturally are going to require a large administration force and detailed study as to its actual operation. Were I able in my spare time to devise a method of operation of this bill and get it perfect, perhaps I would have a little better job than I have got. So I can not do that. Mr. Fort. Do you not think we ought to try to figure it out in theory before we put it practically on the books? Mr. SexAvUER. I have never heard of any law which affected the economics of any industry being placed on the statute books in perfect form. : Mr. Fort. Neither have I. Mr. SExAUER. And so I am assuming that in placing those on the books that whoever does it and however it.is done it will be done with the best advice of those men who are most familiar with the particular commodities it is going to affect, and as it is expanded or contracted it will be expanded or contracted with the advice of those who are interested and those who have knowledge of the particular com- modity.

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