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trade agreement that will give us some import duty, some protection 

 from oil which is being brought into this country, of course we are 

 going to have a lot of dumping if we attempt a support price for oil. 



Mr. Andresen. The result would be that the Government would 

 be owning virtually all of the domestic production. 



Mr. SiKES. That possibility exists, and yet we can remind ourselves 

 that we have a job which we are attempting to do before this com- 

 mittee, and we are trying to do just the one job here today, and I 

 think we should consider part of the job here. We cannot presume on 

 what the Ways and Means Committee would do. I think the matter 

 should be presented to them, and I think there should be a change in 

 the Government's policy toward an import duty on tung oil, but 

 neither of those questions is before this committee at this time. 



Mr. Andresen. But if the gentleman will yield, I am sure he 

 realizes that we must have and must exercise average intelligence about 

 the over-all legislative picture on a commodity of this kind 



Mr. Sikes. I would not question my friend's intelligence on any 

 matter. 



Mr. Andresen. And we should try to exercise that judgment, be- 

 cause this will give temporary help, for proposal before this com- 

 mittee, but it is not the solution for the tung oil problem alone. 



Mr. Sikes. Other than what might be needed for stock piling, I 

 think that this is a matter of such importance that it would not be 

 injurious to the Nation's safety, if you please, to have a considerable 

 amount of it held in reserve. 



Mr. Andresen. It occurs to me that we might pass a law requiring 

 the Navy, the Army and other governmental agencies to buy domestic 

 goods instead of going outside the country and buying tung oil and 

 other commodities. 



Mr. Sikes. I would not object to Government agencies having to- 

 buy in this country the goods produced in this country. 



Mr. Andresen. Mr. Colmer said I believe that the Navy bought 

 tung oil in China? 



Mr. Sikes. I would not contend that has not been done. 



Mr. Pace. Thank you very much, Mr. Sikes, for your statement. 



Mr. Sikes. Mr. Chairman, I am glad to see that this committee 

 is giving consideration to a matter which is of very great importance 

 to the people who are producing tung oil but of much more importance 

 to the country which has to have tung oil in its economy. I feel that 

 unless we provide a measure of support by legislation that we are 

 running a very serious risk of stamping out entirely the tung oil in- 

 dustry, and if we do that we are going to be completely at the mercy 

 of the producers in a land which it appears shortly will be completely 

 in Communist hands. 



Mr. Pace. Thank you very much, Mr. Sikes, for your statement. 



Mr. Sikes. Thank you. 



STATEMENT OF HON. CHARLES E. BENNETT, A REPRESENTATIVE 

 IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA 



Mr. Pace. It is a pleasure to introduce our colleague at this time,. 

 Mr. Bennett of Florida. 



Mr. Bennett. Mr. Chairman, and gentlemen of the committee, 

 I am not going to take a lot of time of the committee, because most 

 of what I would say has already been covered by a written statement 



