There’s probably no better opportunity for bipartisan achievement this year than expanding export markets for American goods and services. This starts with passing Trade Promotion Authority—or “TPA.”
Last year, the President gave TPA only the most fleeting of mentions in his State of the Union address. And it took Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) fewer than 24 hours to put the kibosh on the…
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The new Congress is focused on helping create jobs and giving Americans greater economic opportunity. And America’s trade agenda is critical to this effort.
Expanding export markets for American businesses means more productivity and more good American jobs.
Right now, the United States is negotiating several important trade agreements that will open markets to our goods and…
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Washington, DC – House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today announced the public release of the results of the U.S. International Trade Commission’s (ITC) Investigation No. 332-543, “Trade, Investment, and Industrial Policies in…
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Free Trade is a Winner in Recent Elections
By Bryan Riley, The Hill contributor
Riley is the Heritage Foundation's Jay Van Andel Senior Policy Analyst in Trade Policy.
In Georgia, Iowa, Massachusetts and North Carolina, the midterm elections proved that candidates shouldn't be afraid to talk about the benefits of…
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The New Congress Should Revive a Bill on 'Fast-Track' Trade Authority
By The Washington Post Editorial Board
Now that Republicans have gained control of Congress, no policy area is riper for bipartisan action than trade. President Obama’s trade representative, Michael Froman, is deeply engaged in trade-expansion talks with 11 Asia-Pacific nations, including Japan. A…
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a proposed free-trade agreement that will knit the United States and 11 nations of South America, North America and Asia more closely together, while providing a geopolitical counterweight to a rising China. The pact would be especially valuable because Japan is willing to join, which would require…
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Washington, DC – House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) along with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) sent a letter, also found below, to the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) requesting the ITC conduct a second investigation into India’s unfair trade practices that…
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Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) made the following statements on the failure to adopt the Trade Facilitation Agreement protocol in Geneva:
Rep. Camp: "India’s actions last night to bring down implementation of the Trade Facilitation Agreement are completely unacceptable and put into…
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Washington, DC – Today, House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Ranking Member Charles Rangel (D-NY), along with 138 other Members, sent a letter to President Obama stating their concerns over the status of the agriculture market access negotiations with Japan and Canada in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, in particular the effort by…
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Good afternoon. Welcome to today’s hearing on advancing our trade agenda and trade with Africa. Before hearing from our witnesses, I’d like to make three points.
First, we are committed to a seamless, bipartisan renewal of AGOA well before its expiration in 15 months. Congressman Rangel and I worked closely in developing this hearing – having jointly selected all the witnesses…
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