DOCUMENT TERRITORIES AND INSULAR AFFAIRS UNITED STATES SENATE SEVENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 1028 A BILL TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PROVID AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES" FEBRUARY 16 TO MARCH 15, 1939 Printed for the use of the Committee on Territories and Insular Affairs CONTENTS zan Loomis, A. M__ McDaniel, J. S.. Micou, Cheswell M_. Osmena, Hon. Sergio. Rivers, Maj. Gen. William C_ COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1939 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON TERRITORIES AND INSULAR AFFAIRS, Washington, D. The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10:30 a. m., in the For Relations Committee room, in the Capitol, Senator Millard E. ' ings (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Millard E. Tydings (chairman), Pittman, 1 den, King, Bone, Gerry, Miller, Vandenberg, Gibson, Lodge, Danaher. The committee had under consideration S. 1028. [S. 1028, 76th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the complete independe the Philippine Islands, to provide for the adoption of a constitution and a fo government for the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the U States of America in Congress assembled, That section 6 of the Act of M 24, 1934, entitled "An Act to provide for the complete independence of the P pine Islands, to provide for the adoption of a constitution and a form of ernment for the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes" (48 Stat. 450 hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 6. During the period beginning January 1, 1940, and ending Ju 1946, trade relations between the United States and the Philippines shall now provided by law, subject to the following exceptions: "(a) On and after January 1, 1941, the Philippine Government shall in and collect an export tax on every Philippine article shipped from the P pines to the United States, except as otherwise specifically provided in section. Said tax shall be computed in the manner hereinafter set forth in subsection and in subsection (c) of this section. During the period Janua 1941, through December 31, 1941, the export tax on every such article sha 5 per centum of the United States duty; on each succeeding January 1 t after the export tax shall be increased progressively by an additional centum of the United States duty, except that during the period Janua 1946, through July 3, 1946, the export tax shall remain at 25 per centum c United States duty. "(b) (1) No export tax described in subsection (a) of this section sha imposed or collected upon any Philippine article of a class or kind in re of which a quota is esta copra or manila (abac "(2) The United Sta by subdivision (3) of this subsection, nor not dressed or manufactured in any manner y shall be levied collected, and paid in the U States upon every article which is of a class or kind in respect of which a is established by subdivision (3) of this subsection and which is entered, or drawn from warehouse, for consumption after December 31, 1939, in excess respective quota. "(3) For the purposes indicated in subdivisions (1) and (2) of this subse there are hereby established the following quotas of the designated Phili articles: For the calendar year 1940, the quotas, hereafter called original qu shall be as follows: "a. cigars (exclusive of cigarettes, cheroots of all kinds, and paper ( and cigarettes including wrappers), two hundred million cigars; 1 |