Mushroom imports to be investigated WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator John Heinz (R-Pa) recently' announced that Special Trade Represen tative Robert Strauss has ordered an investigation into the illegal diversion of mushrooms into the United States.' Heinz said that the Republic of China (Taiwan) has attempted to exceed U.S. limits on Taiwanese mushrooms by shipping part of their crop to Hong Kong where they are mixed with mushrooms from the People's Republic of China, repackaged and then shipped to the U.S. \ THE SYSTEMS PEOPLE I (§ GSI, Inc., is committed to manufacturing and al farmer and businessman, you owe it to supplying a systems approach to on-farm yourself, your family, and your land to in grain management. Don't suffer with the un- vestigate and discover the advantages to predictability of the weather; as a profession- your own on-farm gram management system. C AAUmn equipment imc. RD 3, Sprecher Rd. mm* w ■■ Willow St, PA. Lancaster Co, Heinz raised these charges in a June 6 letter to Strauss. The Special Trade Representative’s reply, dated October 6, enclosed a copy of Strauss’ letter to Customs Commissioner Robert Chasen requesting the investigation. In his letter to Chasen, Strauss said; “Our negotiators have been informed by officials of the ROC that Taiwan ships mushrooms to Hong Kong, packed in brine for sale in Asian markets. However, we understand that Hong-Kong mushroom packers have been desalting the A ESI ON FARM STORAGE SYSTEM ★ TRANSPORT AUGERS ★ GRAIN BIN FLOORS ★ GRAIN BINS ' Phone: 717-464-3321 Taiwanese ' mushrooms, mining them with mushrooms from the People’s Republic of China, and labeling them as Taiwan-origin mushrooms to be shipped to, among other places, the United States. This raises a number of problems regarding possible violations of Customs laws and also possible cir cumvention of our March - 1977 understanding with Taiwan regarding the level of mushroom shipments to theU.S. Thus, we request that Customs investigate and inform us at the earliest possible date of: (a) the true source of the canned mushrooms shipped to the U.S. from Hong Kong; (b) whether the processing of Taiwanese mushrooms in Hong Kong results in a “substantially transformed” product that should be marked as originating In Hong Kong; and{c) whether there is commingling of these mushrooms with PRC mushrooms, such that mushrooms imported into the U.S. are not being properly marked and. therefore, dutiable as products of the PRC.” “1 am glad to see that the Administration has at least taken this first step to help protect American mushroom growers who have been battered year after year by foreign im ports,” Heinz said. “I can only hope that this in vestigation will be followed by concrete steps to halt the illegal shipment of mushrooms.” if if be noWj+'S not +o C6me. } iF •*+ be. n&+ +o COVTVC.J ft will be Wovs/. rf i+- be no~t hoWjVet iT Will CO^IB- ★ WETTANKS ★ FEED BINS ★ GRAIN DRYERS (New & Used) ★ We Sell, Service & install ★ Full Line Parts Department Lancaster Farming Saturday, October? John Frey Pa. 4-H dairy judges score second place at World Dairy Expo UNIVERSITY PARK - Pennsylvania’s 4-H dairy judging team came home from the World Dairy Ex position with a second placing in the National 4-H Dairy Judging Contest, it was announced recently by Pgul Anderson, Extension dairy specialist at Penn State University. Me~ rs were Douglas Hershberger, Quarryville; John Frey, Willow Street; Todd Grice, Washington; and Jeff Harding, Brook ville. Anderson coached the team. Aside from the team’s second place in overall Ralston Purina makes movie at Umberger’s RICHLAND - Umbergers Inc., Richland, was busy with activity last week as a movie crew from New York City, N.Y., completely transformed the store over night to show Halston- Purina dealers, through a thirty minute movie, how to improve their in-store merchandising. Clarence Kreider, manager of the store said the basic theme of the movie was to show dealers they can clean up their own store, using their own people and $lOO-or less in paint and supplies. Kreider said they put eye catching signs along with more attractive CORN SMOKETOWN, PA Doug Hershberger competition, they also scored a second place in reasoning for the entire contest, were first in Holstein judging, second with Ayrshires and Guern seys, and third in Jerseys. Harding was the second high individual in the contest and also second in overall reasoning. He was third highest individual in judging Guernseys. Frey was seventh in in dividual judging, Her shberger placed 16th. He was second high man in Holstein judging. Grice was the team alternate. displays for better mer chandising. Seven thousand dealers across the country will have the opportunity to view this fUm, he said. This was the first film Raisin Purina did on actual location for merchandising. Up until now they have only used film strips. Kreider said his new store looked “terrific, looks like a new show room. It’s a remarkable transformation. It should have a good impact on dealers that see it.” Kreider said our customers have been complementing us on the stores new ap pearance.”
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