Geopolitics of Strategic and Critical Materials: Hearings Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, on the Geopolitics of Strategic and Critical Materials, May 19, June 20, and July 22, 1983U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983 - 512 pages |
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Page 504 - States to oppose any assistance by these institutions, using funds appropriated or made available pursuant to this Act, for the production of any commodity for export, if it is in surplus on world markets and if the assistance will cause substantial injury to United States producers of the same, similar, or competing
Page 391 - the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, and the African Development Fund to use the voice and vote of the United States to oppose any assistance by these institutions . . . for the production of any commodity for export, if it is in surplus on world markets
Page 348 - of articles into the United States, or in their sale by the owner, importer, consignee, or agent of either, the effect or tendency of which is to destroy or substantially injure an industry efficiently and economically operated in the United States, or to prevent the establishment of such an industry, or to restrain or monopolize trade and commerce in the United States. If the
Page 390 - The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States executive directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, and the African Development Fund to use the voice and vote of the United States to oppose any assistance by these institutions
Page 503 - as the World Bank], the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, and the African Development Fund to use the voice and vote of the
Page 348 - efficiently and economically operated in the United States, or to prevent the establishment of such an industry, or to restrain or monopolize trade and commerce in the United States. If the Commission
Page 391 - for the production of any commodity for export, if it is in surplus on world markets and if the assistance will cause substantial injury to the United States producers of the same, similar, or competing commodity.
Page 6 - Our aim is to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: the energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the mineral treasure house of Central and Southern Africa. I
Page 317 - calls for rapid economic support for key countries which are in need of immediate assistance. The second, and closely related, broad policy objective has to do with the preservation and growth of a free, open, and stable economic and financial system through the promotion of economic and social development. The MDB's
Page 7 - to gain control of the two great treasure houses on which the West depends: The energy treasure house of the Persian Gulf and the mineral treasure house of central and southern Africa.