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FOREIGN RELATIONS, 19 5 0, VOLUME I


411.003/11-2150
Memoranduwm by the Alternate Chairman of the Interdepartmental
   Committee on Trade Agreements (Beale) to Dr. John R. Steelman,
   The Assistant to the President
SECRET                          [WASHINGTON,] November 21, 1950.
Subject: Proposed Alternatives to the Raw Wool Concession
   Reference is made to your memorandum of November 16, 1950 to
 the Secretary of State enclosing a memorandum from the Secretary of
 Agriculture, dated November 15, 1950,1 in which it was recommended
 that, in making a further wool concession ,to Australia, either (1)
 the right would be reserved to withdraw the concession by a Presi-
 dential Proclamiation stating that the abnormal situation regarding
 wool had ceased to exist, or (2) the United States would promise to
 suspend the duty on wool under the provisions of Section 318 of the
 Tariff Act of 1930 for the duration of the emergency wool situation.
   On November 17, the interdepartmental Committee on Trade Agree-
ments considered these alternatives. At that time the Committee
was informed by the member representing the Department of Agri-
culture that it was intended that either of these alternatives should
be offered instead of the concession on raw wool recommended by
the majority of the Committee on September 26 and approved by the
President on November 14, 1950.
  After full and careful consideration of these alternatives, the
majority of the Committee (the representative of the Department of
Agriculture dissenting) voted not to recommend to the President
that either of the alternatives be offered to Australia and New Zealand
instead of the offer previously recommended.
  In reaching this decision the majority of the Committee expressed
the view that there had been no change in the situation with respect
to wool which would justify a change in the recommendation of the
majority as set forth in my memorandum to the President, dated
September 26,1950.
                                                 W. T. iNI. BEALE
  Dr. Steelman's memorandum to the Secretary of State, November 16, is not
printed. (411.003/11-1650). The memorandum of November 15 from the Secre-
tary of Agriculture was not attached.

Secretary's Memoranda, Lot 53D444, Box 417
Memorandum by Dr. John R. Steelman, The Assistant to the Presi-
                 dent, to the Secretary of State

RESTRICTED                        WASHINGTON, November 21, 1950.
  This is in reply to your memorandum of today's date regarding
proposed alternatives to the tariff concession on raw wool.