Multinational Corporations, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on International Trade ..., 93-1, February 26, 27, 28; and March 1 and 6, 1973

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الصفحة 442 - This greatest industrial power in the world's history is in danger of becoming nothing more than a nation of hamburger stands ... a country stripped of industrial capacity and meaningful work ... a service economy ... a nation of citizens busily buying and selling cheeseburgers and root beer floats.
الصفحة 335 - Carrying multinationallsm to its logical extreme, a corporation will concentrate its production in the area where costs are lowest and build up Its sales where the market Is most lucrative. Thus, some US electronics manufacturers are using plants in the Far East to make components for equipment sold In the US market and the apparel industry is, for the first time, hinting at farming out some of its production.
الصفحة 277 - The Members recognize that measures relating to employment must take fully Into account the rights of workers under inter-Governmental declarations, conventions and agreements. They recognize that all countries have a common interest in the achievement and maintenance of fair labour standards related to productivity, and thus in the improvement of wages and working conditions as productivity may permit.
الصفحة 178 - The liberalization of United States and Canadian automotive trade in respect of tariff barriers and other factors tending to impede it, with a view to enabling the industries of both countries to participate on a fair and equitable basis in the expanding total market of the two...
الصفحة 448 - I have long dreamed of buying an island owned by no nation, and of establishing the world headquarters of the Dow company on the truly neutral ground of such an island, beholden to no nation or society.
الصفحة 13 - My testimony would not be complete without a brief discussion of some of the alternative international economic proposals to be considered by this committee.
الصفحة 274 - ... correcting tax incentives alone will be sufficient to deal with the problem. (Over 80 percent of all foreign taxable income accrued to 430 giant corporations with assets over $250 million each — a much greater degree of concentration than exists in domestic production.) In particular the UAW urges legislation that would require licenses to be obtained for foreign investments proposed to be made by US corporations, including reinvestment of profits made in foreign operations. The applicant for...
الصفحة 330 - The production, of course, and all the technology, would move to France. US workers would be squeezed out of the project. In commercial aircraft, the export of US superiority is also accelerating. Recently, the Boeing Company entered into an agreement with the Japanese government to develop a new wide-bodied air bvs.
الصفحة 330 - Anyone who is naive enough to believe that the Japanese or British governments permit foreigners to license their processes as freely as the US does ours has simply never tried to negotiate these transactions." Translate the losses being suffered in aerospace into all the other industries in America in terms of thousands of jobs and loss of technology and you can begin to comprehend the massive change that is overwhelming this country. US LABOR COSTS LOW, PRODUCTIVITY REMAINS HIGH One of the most...
الصفحة 409 - (a) TREATMENT OF TAXES PAID BY FOREIGN CORPORATION. — For purposes of this subpart, a domestic corporation which owns at least 10 percent of the voting stock of a foreign corporation from which it receives dividends in any taxable year shall...

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