FOURTEEN The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday November 9, 1978
State cattlemen's chief says
New Meat Import Act would benefit both consumers and ranchers
"Both consumers and cat
tlemen will suffer if President
Carter does not sign into law
the recently passed amend
ment to the Meat Import Act,
which is now on his White
House desk," according to
Donald Ostensoe, Executive
Vice President, Oregon Cattle
men's Association, speaking
before Redmond businessmen
and the annual meeting of the
Deschutes County Livestock
Association at a banquet in
Redmond last Tuesday.
Ostensoe said that the
"three thousand-member Ore
gon Cattlemen's Association
has urged President Carter to
sign the legislation because
failure to do so would thwart
the will of Congress and stifle
the cattle industry's rebuild
ing of the basic herd, after
four years of liquidation as a
result of adverse economics.
"Cattlemen have been sup
porters of efforts to curb
inflation," Ostensoe said. "We
are urging the President to
sign this bill, which is actually
anti-inflationary."
In support of his position,
Ostensoe referred to Library
of Congress studies which
show the import legislation
would provide stability bene
fitting both the public and the
cattle industry. The amend
ments would help assure more
dependable supplies of quality
beef at reasonable prices for
U.S. consumers.
The new legislation includes
a counter-cyclical import
quota formula, under which
imports will increase when
domestic beef output declines
cyclically, and will decrease
when U.S. beef production
becomes excessive. The legis
lation also defines more pre
cisely the circumstances
under which the President
may increase meat imports
beyond quota levels.
"We are already dependent
on other countries for our oil
supplies, the last thing we
want to do is become depend
ent on foreign meat as well.
Failure to make this bill law
eventually can have that
effect."
The bill (HR 11545) was
passed by substantial majori
ties in both houses of Congress
last week. Cattlemen are
concerned that critics are
making last-ditch efforts to
head off legislation by putting
pressure on the President to
exercise his veto.
The critics claim the legisla
tion will reduce imports and
raise prices to consumers. But
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independent studies, say the
exact opposite.
"Over the 10-year cattle
cycle, total imports would not
be reduced," Ostensoe said.
"In fact, during the next few
years, when domestic beef
output will be decreasing
cyclically, imports will in
creasehelping to moderate
prices to consumers.
"Later, as part of the cycle
in an agricultural business
like ours, U.S. beef production
will likely become burden
some again. At that time,
imports will be decreased.
The supply and price stability
which will result from HR
11545 will benefit consumers
as well as cattlemen."
Ostensoe noted that criti
sism of the bill by foreign
nations was to be expected.
"What these foreign critics
fail to mention is that we
already import more beef, by
far, than any other nation. In
fact, our imports account for
30 per cent of all beef involved
in world trade. Under our
import law, we guarantee beef
exporting nations a substan
tial share of our market, year
after year.
"On the other hand, most
other countries including
beef exporting countries
which are now criticizing
us put up barriers which shut
out competitive beef. Because
of those barriers, we in the
U.S. export only 0.2 per cent of
our beef production. Obvious
ly, beef trade is not now a
two-way street.
"It's obvious to cattlemen in
Oregon and elsewhere that the
exporting nations want to go
on dumping their periodic
surpluses in our market. They
want our market to be the
relief valve for the whole
world at the expense of U.S.
Cont. on page 15
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