The Senate today adopted a somewhat strengthened version of an amendment opposing the Arab boycott inserted by the House into the Export Control Act. The vote came after the amendment’s original sponsors, Senator Jacob K. Javits, New York Republican, and Sen. Harrison A. Williams, Jr., New Jersey Democrat, were informed that the Commerce Department and State Department would publicly pledged to implement measures against the boycott specified in the legislation.
The Executive Department did this to avoid language that would actually prohibit the boycott. It compromised by accepting additional language that would require American companies receiving requests for boycott information to report this fact to the Secretary of Commerce for such action as he may deem appropriate to carry out the purposes of the anti-boycott wording.
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