CCCT MINUTES

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 1, 2007
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• Publication Date: July 9, 1982
• Content Type: MEMO

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REX' ARKS: Attached for your information are the minutes of the June 23
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RETURN TO: ^ Craig L. Fuller
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^ Becky Norton Dunlop
Director, Office of
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MINUTES
CABIN* COUNCIL ON COMMERCE AND JADE
Meeting #35, June 23, 1982
8:15 a.m., Roosevelt Room
Attendees: Messrs. Baldrige, Donovan, Harper, McNamar, Trent,
MacDonald, Hormats, Gunn, Weidenbaum, Olmer, Driggs, Cicconi,
C. Smith, D. Smith, Niskanen, Lodwick, Mares, Thompson, Wunder,
Ms. Dunlop and Dr. Anderson
1. Automotive Local Content Legislation
Michael Driggs, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for
Automotive Industry Affairs made a presentation to the Council on
Automotive Local Content Legislation (H.R. 5133), specifically a
suggested strategy for.opposing the bill. The plan is.to stop.
the bill in the House rather than wait to make a stand in the
Senate. This is to be accomplished through an interagency
effort. The general consensus was that H.R. 5133 would probably
destroy more jobs than it would create, but that more homework
needs to be done on figures measuring the harm. The Council was
unanimous in its preference not to negotiate the percentage local
content downward. Rather, the principle of local content
requirements should be opposed.
Action Taken: The Council approved the recommendation that
Secretary Baldrige be designated the Administration spokesman on
this matter, and be authorized to announce the Council's
continued and unanimous opposition to such legislation.
Commitments were made by Council members to improve their
Departments' participation in the interagency effort to stop
H.R. 5133-
2. The Competitive Position of U.S. High Technology Industries
Lionel Olmer, Under Secretary of Commerce for International
Trade, summarized key findings of the CCCT draft study on U.S.
competitiveness in high technology industries. He reported that
the study concluded there has been .a. relative decline in U.S.
competitiveness in high technology industries as measured by
trade flows among our major trading partners, in particular
Japan, West Germany and France. He noted that the study does not
examine the implications for policy nor does it yet resolve
differences among participating agencies as to analytic
methodologies or as to certain of its conclusions. (A revised
draft is being prepared in an effort to accommodate the views of
participating agenices.)
A number of specific suggestions were made for the Working
Group's agenda:.
o Indentify.foreign subsidies as well as U.S. subsidies to
high technology industries (Baldrige/Weidenbaum).
o Consider the appropriate relationship between government
policy and high technology industries.
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o Consider the 0fect on competitiveness W technology
Yr transfer, including that which results from co-production
arrangements with our allies.
o Expand the treatment given in the study to the national
security implications for the U.S. which would flow from a
relative change in competitiveness.
Action Taken: It was agreed that the CCCT Working Group on High
Technology should be expanded to include several departments not
.yet involved. This expanded group would:
o Examine further the extent of the U.S. relative decline in
high technology and seek to indentify the causes thereof.
o Examine what implications, if any, there are for government
policy.
o Coordinate activities relative to U.S. participation in the
various high technology initiatives which have recently
arisen.
3. Copyright Legislation - Home Video and Audio Recording
Bernard Wunder, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for
Communications and Information led the discussion on this issue.
Commerce, Justice, and the Arts Endowment were scheduled to
testify on Thursday, June 24, 1982, on legislation (H.R. 5705)
that would levy a copywright royalty fee on home audio and video
cassette recorders (VCRs) and blank tapes as a means of
compensating copyright holders of material recorded for private
use. The legislation stems primarily from a suit brought by
Universal City. Studios and Walt Disney Studios against Sony
(maker of "Betamax" VCR), in which they argued that home taping
of video programs violates copyrights and that Sony is liable for
contributing to this infringement.
Action Taken: The Council's recommendation was that the
Administration should take no position on H.R. 5705 at this
time. In addition, the Administration should take no position on
the Universal/Disney/Sony case, since the case will be heard by
the Supreme Court this fall.
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