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Lurnber and Shlpplng

7th Floor, Alaska-Commercid Bldg., AGANTS

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Hoquirn Lunbcr & Shinsb Co.

Hulbat MiU Co.

Wilhpr Hrrbor Lunbcr Millr

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310 Sansome Street, San Francisco STEAMERS

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Dorothy C.rhitt

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Annie Chrirtcnrol

Edwin Chrircoroe

Cetherinc G. Sudd.o

Eleanor Chrfutoaroo

PORTLAND

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Foreign Trade Convention Reiterates Position o[

Lumber as Export Commodity

Washington, August S.-Forest products have again been designated as basic exportable commodities by the National Foreign Trade Association, which urges the fostering of world trade in these products as a part of the forestry policy of the United States:

The following resolution has been passed as one of the declarations of the Association at the National Foreign Trade Convention in San Francisco, July 29,30 and 31.

Other declarations by the Convention, of interest to lumbermen, include a request that the U. S. Government assist associations of exporters operating under the Export Trade Act, and a commendation of the manner in which the Government has handled recent relationships between the United States and countries of the Far East, with particular emphasis on improvement of trade through the preservation of peace in the Pacific region.

The text of the resolutions on these three subjects follows:

Forestry: We urge continued recognition of the position of forest products as basic exportable commodities, and the fostering of world trade in these products as part of the forestry policy of the United States.

Export Trade Act: The United States Government should encourage and assist associations of exporters op- erating under the Export Trade Act. In the face of more effective and widespread foreign buying cartels, the policy expressed in this helpful legislation should be clarified and strengthened. It is recommended that the administration of the act be transferred to the Department of Commerce.

The Far East: The Convention commends the manner in which our Government has handled and is handling the problems which have arisen in the relations of the United States with countries and regions of the Far East.

The Convention believes in the good-neigbor policy, a policy which calls for reciprocal fair treatment. It believes that the business men of the United States and of countries of the Far East would welcome, under such conditions, the conclusion of new agreements wherein each country would undertake to respect the rights and interests of the others concerned and to accord broad mostfavored-nation treatment toward enlarging trade and preserving the traditional peace throughout the Pacific region.

Wm. B. Greeley, secretary-manager of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, was chairman of the Convention's Lumber and Timber Products group, and Wilson Compton, secretary and manager of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association, attended the Declarations Cornmittee mgeting.