A bill to provide for orderly trade in textile articles and articles of leather footwear, and for other purposes.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Provides for the regulation in commerce of textile articles and; articles of leather footwear among the several States and with foreign nations so as to foster the maintenance and expansion of economically strong textile and footwear articles in the United States. Asserts that the total quantity of each category of textile articles and articles of leather footwear originating in any country which may be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for comsuption during the calendar year beginning January 1, 1970, shall be limited to the average annual quantity of such category originating in such country which was entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the two calendar years 1967-1968. Authorizes the President to enter into international arrangements or agreements with foreign governments or instrumentalities separately regulating, by category, the quantities of all textile articles or all articles of leather footwear, or both, originating in such nations or instrumentalities which may be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption. (Amends 19 U.S.C. 1821 (a) (1)) Asserts that the quantitative import limitations on textile articles of cotton heretofore esta…