Maritime Reform Funding Proposals: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Merchant Marine of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session ... April 28, 1994U.S. Government Printing Office, 1994 - 91 pages |
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Administration Administration's proposal agreement American shipyards April 28 Bateman BENTLEY billion budget bulk carriers bulk vessels cargo preference cents commercial COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT competitive Congress contract cost cruise economic enactment FINNERTY funding proposals Hampton Roads impact increase INDUSTRIAL TRANSPORTATION LEAGUE John Stocker legislation LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART liner vessels MARINE AND FISHERIES maritime program maritime reform maritime revitalization program Maritime Trust Maritime Trust Fund National Coal Association ocean transportation system oceanborne operating subsidies Passenger Vessel percent Pickett Post Office Box proposals for maritime rates represents revenue Secretary Peña SHAPIRO short tons statement States-flag liner fleet Stocker SUBCOMMITTEE ON MERCHANT Thank TILLIE K tonnage fees TRANSPORTATION LEAGUE U.S. coal exports U.S. companies U.S. flag fleet U.S. Government U.S. merchant U.S. ports U.S. REPRESENTATIVE U.S. shippers U.S. trade U.S. yards U.S.-flag merchant marine United States-flag liner vessel tonnage tax Virginia Washington
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Page 90 - That a discriminating duty of ten per centum ad valorem, in addition to the duties imposed by law, shall be levied, collected, and paid on all goods, wares, or merchandise which shall be imported in vessels not of the United States...
Page 90 - Provided, That no such duty shall be required where a vessel owned by citizens of the United States, but not a vessel of the United States, after entering an American port, shall, before leaving the same, be registered as a vessel of the United States.
Page 34 - States shall have a merchant marine (a) sufficient to carry its domestic waterborne commerce and a substantial portion of the water-borne export and import foreign commerce of the United States and to provide shipping service essential for maintaining the flow of such domestic and foreign water-borne commerce at all times...
Page 77 - According to recent figures from the Maritime Administration, in 1991, commercial port activities resulting from cargo operations created 1.5 million jobs, contributed $70 billion to the gross national product, provided personal income of $52 billion, and generated Federal taxes of $14 billion, State and local taxes of $5.3 billion. The deep draft commercial ports of our country handle over 95 percent of the Nation's international trade — nearly one billion tons of cargo a year worth nearly $500...
Page 32 - Chairman, Oceanography Subcommittee Committee on Merchant Marine & Fisheries United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Re: HR 5464; September 30 Hearings Dear Chairman Lowry: In the course of my testimony on HR 5464 at the hearings conducted by your subcommittee on September 30, 1987, I referred to the fact that the Department of the Interior designed Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Sale No.
Page 11 - We have a long way to go. We look forward to working with you as Director in the coming months.