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—Lancaster Firming Saturday, March 6. 1976
Palm oil imports
soybean
WASHINGTON - The incrcwc m VS palm oil
National Soybean imports in 1975 was spurred
Processors Association in large part by subsidized
(NSPA) recently called on palm oil production funded
the UJS. government to end through loans from In
its support of international tematlonal agencies such as
subsidies for foreign palm oil the World Bank. The U.S
production, to negotiate a government continues to
mandatory import quota on endorse loan applications
palm oil, and to establish a form Southeast Asian
duty on its importation. governments for expansion
Lowell K. Rasmussen, of palm oil output, and is
president'of the Association, known to provide moat of the
said that the 100 percent
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jeopardizing
# m on the American farmer,
nnPPfi mai; f*|a recalling that the US.
IllCljr Department of Agriculture
hat estimated that sales of 43
million bushels of soybeans
to domestic edible oil users
were lost in 1975 as a direct
result of increased palm oil
imports.
NSPA pointed out that the
U.S. is the .only major
economy in the world that
imposes no duties or other
restrictions on imported
palm oil. Rasmussen con
cluded; "Other Western
governments have moved to
counterweigh the artificial
advantages possessed by
palm oil, in order to place
their own domestic
vegetable oils and related
products on an equal and fair
basis in trade. The U.S. must
do the same."
loan money used by the
World Bank.
In announcing the NSPA
position, Rasmussen noted
that accelerating palm oil
Imports have reduced
consumption of American
vegetable oils, and have
precipitated substantial
losses in U.S. farm sales of
soybeans. In an analytical
paper also released today,
entitled "The Problem of
Palm Oil,” the Association
explained that the price
undercutting impact of
subsidized palm oil on
demand for soybean oil will
have the effect of increasing
the price of soybean meal, a
leading high-protein animal
feed. That, in turn, will mean
American consumers will
face increased prices for
meat, poultry and dairy
products.
Rasmussen said: “There
is bitter irony in the U.S.
Government supporting
foreign palm oil producers
with the money of American
taxpayers, who, because of
that, will have to pay in
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creased prices for food
products at hone."
The Association em
phasized the damage of
subsidized palm oil imports
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The Student Advisory «*K*tlonal *rlkes really
Board, the representative of ra 2s -y7 „ ,
the students of Penn- Advisory
sylvanla, baa becomed Board would like to see a
alarmed at the rapid In- reanesment of
crease o' cuurjtional *trlke policy’with these and
strikes. In tne opinion of thin ,tu< lant oriented
board there are a few nitod.
questions which have been _ Th« students of the state of
overlooked or ]ust blatently Peonyivanla demand and
neglected: ex P ect • education;
(1) Is the student's “ cdncatlon that exists
inalienable right to a quality students, not in
education being violated by W « them
educational strikes?
(2) Have- the teachers Solar
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(3) Do school boards use wts the Wlth
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strictly poUdca! move? overlapping Each planet
(4) Do teachers use travels faster when close to
educational demands in their sun . Thal - S why lhe
proposals as a ploy to play on length of days on earth J var *
the sympathy ol the public slightly during the year.
and is the bottom line in
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