If further restrictions were placed on the imports of frozen 

 cooked tuna loins, frozen cooked tuna in cans, and tuna canned in 

 brine or oil, to aid shoreworkers, then domestic packers would have 

 increased costs, and a lesser share of the market to the extent 

 that domestic catches could not fill the gap« If additional restric- 

 tions were placed on imports of tuna canned in oil or in brine, then 

 the fleet, the canners, and the shoreworkers would benefit while 

 importers and distributors of canned tuna would s\iffer« 



Lack of full employment for shoreworkers creates a difficult 

 problem for mary of them who do not possess skills permitting them 

 to transfer readily to other industries o For others there is no 

 alternative employment in their areas o Imports are both an 

 advantage and a disadvantage to the shoreworker, depending upon the 

 form in which the packer receives them* If the trend is toward the 

 partially processed forms, then shoreworkers must find other employ- 

 ment, possibly at the cost of moving from the area in which they 

 now are employedo 



lie How can domestic canners be assured of supplying a 

 fair share of the domestic market for canned tuna? 



The needs of the domestic market are now supplied by tuna canned 

 by domestic canners from the domestic catch and from imports of 

 frozen round tuna, frozen cooked loins, and frozen cooked tiina in 

 cans, and by importers of tuna and tunalike fishes canned in oil 

 and in brine., If further restrictions were imposed on the imports 

 of frozen rotind tuna or frozen cooked loins to aid the fishing fleet 

 or the shoreworkers, then canning operations would suffer to the 

 extent that the domestic catch could not fill the canners' raw 

 material needs at a comparable price. 



If further restrictions were placed on the importation of 

 tuna or txmalike fishes canned in oil or in brine, all segments 

 of the tuna industry, except importers and distributors of these 

 products, should benefit from a greater market o 



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