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                  This is a report with comments indicating the importance of developing chemical manufactures based on coal byproducts.  The committee recommends that imported hydrocarbon oil used for chemical synthesis should be free of duty and for indigenous oil similarly used, allowances should be paid equal to the respective duties.  An interesting feature of the Fischer-Tropsch process is that the products are aliphatic, not aromatic in character and, thus, resemble petroleum rather than coal oils produced by other processes.  Many of the more important chemicals that can be produced from petroleum could, therefore, be derived with equal, and in some cases greater, facility from the primary products of hydrocarbon synthesis.