B18-Wednesday, November 12, 1980 - North Shore News

No relief for US auto manufactures

Problems in economy rather than in

WASHINGTON (UPI) -
U.S. International Trade
Commission has_ rejected
pleas by the Ford Motor Co.
and the United Auto
Workers union for import
relief against foreign-made
cars.

Three of the commission's

In order to recommend
import rehef, the com-
mission was required by law
to find that imports were a
“substantial” cause of
“serious injury” to the US.
auto industry.

Ford and the UAW had
claimed injury to a USS.

said, the U.S. industry could
compete on even terms.

Ford and the UAW
petitioned last summer for
import rehef in the form of
tanffs and quotas on im-
ported cars.

But makers and importers
of foreign cars say there are

auto

five members ruled that,
while the U.S. auto industry
is suffenng senous loss of
sales and unemployment,
these have been caused
primarily by U.S. economic
conditions and a= shift in
consumer demand rather
than by imports.

industry was clear because

U.S. auto production has
fallen in recent years while
imports have increased.
They sought three years of
import rehef in which to
complete conversion to
making small, fuelefficient
cars ~—- after which, they

really two U.S. auto in-
dustmes — small and large
cars. Their lawyers say the
U.S. smaltl-car industry.
which competes with im-
ports, hasn't been injured
and is in fact thriving. The
gas guzzler industry has been
hurt only because the public

imports says commission

turned away from it. im-
porters say, and should not
be protected from its own
bad decisions.

The case is one of the
largest in its potential impact
ever considered by the
commission. Some 800,000
U.S. workers are employed
in the automobile and
related industnes.

The commission = con-
tended that, while U.S. auto
production has fallen during
the past year, the level of
imports, particularly from
Japan, has increased.

Commissioner Michael J.
Calhoun, who calls himseif
an independent Republican,
spelled out the reasons for
his “no” vote as follows

Calhoun said the U.S auto
industry “is suffemng senous
injury.” But he said there are
two causes of this injury that

are more important than
imports
— The shift in’ pubhe

Around the world drivers nearing home

HOUSTON (UPI)
Canadians Ken Langley and
Garry Sowerby zipped
across famihar North
American highways Mon-
day, confident they are
cruising into the record
books with a new best of 77
days for a dnve around the
world.

Langley and Sowerby
powered their Volvo across
Texas toward Toronto and a
deadline of Nov. 22. But.
having conquered Australia
and India, the final leg of
Odyssey 77 along the Gulf
and Atlantic coasts should
be relatively easy

“When we were doing our
research we figured Aus.
tralia would be the hardest
on the car and India and
Pakistan the hardest on us
anc that’s pretty much the
way it was,” said Langley.
29. navigator for the trip

“In Austraha. we were on
diet roads two-thirds of the

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rods were long and straight
and wide but like a
washboard and very dusty

They shook hell out of the

cer Dust got in everything
but the car worked like a
lop .

The 4 cylinder Volve

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Records.

The two adventurers said
they were slightly ahead of
schedule and don't expect
any trouble bettering the
around-the-world record of
102 days set by Amencan
Johnnie Parsons in a Pontiac
Grand Prix.

In India, Langley said,
“the roads were paved but
old, dilapidated and super
congested. Trucks.
cows, people Im not
exaggerating when I say
you're on the horn all day
long It gave us a raging
headache

“You've
teeming
they re

carts,

heard of
masses.

You can't
dnve at night because there
are No signs

the
well.
there

It yust kind of
wears you down We came
out oof there

heked ~
They

pretty well

also traversed

riverbeds where bridges had
been washed away and
changed a tire when they
were run off the road by a
truck. They flew from
Karachi to Athens and rolled
northward across Yugo-
slavia, Hungary, Bulgara.
Czechoslavakia and = East
Germany in four days.
enduring delays when the
car often was examined for
an hour at a time on each
side of each border

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result, Sowerby drove for 41
straight hours from Budapest
to Sweden.

Guinness set the ground-
rules that included a mileage
requirement of 26,514 miles,
the circumference of the
Earth.

demand toward small,
efficient cars.
— The fact that people have
been buying fewer cars of
any type during the past year
because of the recession.
Commissioners Bill Alber-
ger, the chairman, and Paula
Stern, both Democrats,
essentially agreed with that
reasoning

fuel

The panel's Two
Republicans, Catherine
Bedell and George M.
Moore, found that imports

were a substantial cause of
serous injury in the case of
automobiles, but not in the
case of hght trucks, which
were also tnvolved in the
case.

Had wt decided today that
imports were a substantal
cause of semous injury, the
commission would have met
next week to decide what
remedy to recommend to
President Caner

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