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 166 E s c a p e clause operation. 65 Stat. 74.

P u b l i c a t i o n of findings in FR.

Definitions.

68 Stat. 360.

ODM. Reports on imports i m p a i r i n g national sectirity.

PUBLIC LAW 87-JUNE 21, 1955

Lighthouse Serv^ ice. Retirement age.

STA T.

SEC. 5. The last sentence of subsection (a) of section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended (19 U.S.C. sec. 1364 (a)), is amended to read as follows: "The Tariff Commission shall immediately make public its findings and recommendations to the President, including any dissenting or separate findings and recommendations, and shall cause a summary thereof to be piu)lished in the Federal Register.". SEC. 6. (a) Subsection (b) of section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended (19 U.S.C. sec. 1364 (b)), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Increased imports, either actual or relative, shall be considered as the cause or threat of serious injury to the domestic industry producing like or directly competitive products when the Commission finds that such increased imports have contributed substantially towards causing or threatening serious injury to such industry.". (b) Section 7 of the Trade Agreements Extension Act of 1951, as amended (19 U.S.C. sec. 1364), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(e) As used in this Act, the terms 'domestic industry producing like or directly competitive products' and 'domestic industry producing like or directly competitive articles' mean that portion or subdivision of the producing organizations manufacturing, assembling, processing, extracting, growing, or otherwise producing like or directly competitive products or articles in commercial quantities. I n applying the preceding sentence, the Commission shall (so far as practicable) distinguish or separate the operations of the producing organizations involving the like or directly competitive products or articles referred to in such sentence from the operations of such organizations involving other products or articles.". SEC. 7. Section 2 of the Act entitled "An Act to extend the authority of the President to enter into trade agreements under section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended", approved July 1, 1954 (19 U.S.C. sec. 1352a), is hereby amended by inserting " (a) " after "SEC. 2." and by adding at the end thereof a new subsection as follows: "(b) I n order to further the policy and purpose of this section, whenever the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization has reason to believe that any article is being imported into the United States in such quantities as to threaten to impair the national security, he shall so advise the President, and if the President agrees that there is reason for such belief, the President shall cause an immediate investigation to be made to determine the facts. If, on the basis of such investigation, and the report to him of the findings and recommendations made in connection therewith, the President finds that the article is being imported into the United States in such quantities as to threaten to impair the national security, he shall take such action as he deems necessary to adjust the imports of such article to a level that will not threaten to impair the national security.". Approved June 21, 1955. Public Law 87

June 21, 1955 [S. 1419]

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CHAPTER lYU AN ACT

To lower the age requirements with respect to optional retirement of persns serving in the Coast Guard who served in the former Lighthouse Service.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 6 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize aids to navigation and for other

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