Textile dye industry

Next week in Atlanta, Ga., textile producers and their chemical, machinery, and dye suppliers will gather for the 1970 technical conference of the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists. Many subjects will be explored—consumerism in textile marketing, textile processing in nonaqueous solvents, and dyeing techniques for synthetic fabrics and blends—but running through conferees' conversations will be anxious discussions of mutual problems of the textile and chemical industries, laid like intersecting trains of gunpowder. There are plenty of problems: •American dye manufacturers face possible Congressional approval this year of a trade bill that would permit the demise of American Selling Price. ASP is a system of valuing benzenoid chemical imports for tariff purposes, and its fall could mean a jump in imports of dye and intermediate compounds.• Textile mill operators say that part of their current business slump is caused by textile imports. The same bill that would permit lapse of ASP woul...