Farming, Saturday, Saptawber 13,1980
Bergland interview
(Continued from Pace Al)
mushroom Imports. Is USD A going to have some role in
the President’s decision mating process? What
recommendation will yon make to the President on this
matter?
The Trade Commission report has been filed with
USDA. We will, of course, comment on the findings and
give advice to the President.
For our department it is a delicate matter. We sell
much more to countries like Taiwan, Korea, and China
than we import. Taiwan is a billion dollar buyer of farm
exports. So is Korea. Peoples Republic of China now is a
two billion dollar market.
It’s a matter that has to be handled with great care.
We believe an industry that has been injured by sub
sidized imports has a real cause for complaint.
If the Tarriff Commission studies show there are
subsidies involved we are going to slam down hard.
If it shows it is not a subsidized industry then it’s a
matter of negotiating some reasonable restraint. It
would make no sense to systematically destroy a home
based industry.
Three times in this decade under three different
presidents the ETC has recommended voluntary
restraints of some sort Obviously that hasn’t worked or
we wouldn’t be discussing this.
I think if restraints are carefully negotiated and
properly monitored we can learn to use them.
In the case of Mexican tomatoes we worked out an
arrangement were they do not export tomatoes when the
U.S. cropisin.
That’s a voluntary arangement that is working well.
Another big Pennsylvania crop is apples. USD A has
made two rulings on apple sauce. One is to cut to two
thirds of previous purchases of apple sauce for school
lunches.
The second is to divide such purchases into two
groups: small purchases of 314,000 cases and large
purchases of 408,000 cases. The latter group is open only
to umall business. That hurts our major markets like
Knonse Co-op and Mnssleman’s. Why is this being done?
The general purchase policy of USDA is to buy on
basis of nutritional quality. On that basis apples score
high...they’re good food.
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Thursday reviewed current USDA policies on a
number of matters from current crop conditions to
farm research in the 19905. Bergland told Lan-
Second, we buy according to price. We buy about 20
percent of the food used in the school lunch program. We
think it saves taxpayers money.
It stimulates markets distressed by surpluses. And it
provides the kids with a good lunch at low cost.
It may be the decision on tonnage is a function of price.
The set-aside decision is deliberate.
We have constructed what we call a Small Business
Set-aside Program to be sure the small, independent
businessman has a chance when competing for federal
business.
That is new and that is controversial—l grant that. We
have reserved 60 percent of our purchase authority for
what we describe as small business or small processors.
Forty percent is for the large operators who historically
have had the lion’s share.
It’s an attempt on our part to see what we can do to
maintain competition m the industry and protect and
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stimulate small business enterprises. Now, it may not
work. I may have to give it up.
Will those «mall firms generate enough business to
take care of the school lunch programs and to equalize a
depressed market?
We’ll find out. This is an experimental program. Th<
time is open-eneded.
1 If we don’t get adequate response from the smal
business segment of the industry then we will have tc
change the-rules because we are going to buy the apple
sauce. We want to see the small businessman is able U
compete for the federal dollar.
I’m doing this Department-wide. I do in on timber sales
and other areas. In fact, the President is doing it gover
nment-wide. ■«
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