JOHN TELEPHONE: R.RAFTER COUNSELOR AT WHITEHALL 4-5094 LAW 8 Bridge Hive Na November 30, Gh 195) Mr. Val A. Browning, Browning Arms Company, Ogden, Utah. Dear Mr. Browning: As you may know, the Committee for Reciprocity Tnformation and the United States Tariff Commission will hold public hearings in Washington, D.C., beginning December 13, 1954, primarily between our in connection Government and with a proposed trade agreement Japan. members, The Committee for Reciprocity Information has nine i.e., representatives of the Departments of State, Treasury, Defense, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Interior, the U.S. Tariff Commission and the Foreign Operations Administration, respectively. That committee's hearings will be separate and distinct from the Tariff Commission's hearings but will run concurrently with them, i.e., the Tariff Commission's hearings will be held from 10 a.m. toabout 1 p.m. each working day beginning December 13th and the above committee's hearings will ing day, kinds of both hearings on the imported articles. the be held from 2 p.m. to same about day 5 p.m. dealing each with work- the same Though these hearings are primarily concerned with negotiation of a trade agreement with Japan, they are also concerned, to some extent, with ment on Tariffs and Trade which Switzerland, in February, changes in the General Agreeare to be considered at Geneva, 1955. : It has recently come to my attention that on the long list of articles which are thus scheduled for hearings Washington beginning December 13th are the following: Tariff Par. 365 Shotguns, 365 Barrels valued for ture than wholly or over shotguns, $25 each. further advanced in manufac- rough bored only; stocks for shotguns, partly manufactured; parts of shotguns, in