21 Dec Finance Trade Priorities May Shift Under Wyden as Chairman
The to-do trade list includes a Baucus-Hatch draft renewal of expired fast-track trade and potential ratification of the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade agreement...
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06 Dec Baucus Adds Park As Finance Committee International Trade Counsel
"There's big things to do on the trade agenda. We have to draft these free-trade bills and agreements. Baucus is dedicated to passing them, and...
16 Nov Baucus Expects Fast Track Bills in Senate, House This Year
Trade Promotion Authority, or fast-track authority, from Congress is a crucial step towards getting enactment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a broad trade deal covering a...
08 Nov Footwear Execs Push TPP in Washington, DC
FDRA visited Capitol Hill and the Obama Administration October 29th and 30th to urge the House and Senate and other policy makers to support a...
06 Nov Free Trade Agreement Needs Trade Promotion Authority
Congress faces an important choice in the months ahead as it considers legislation to renew Trade Promotion Authority. More than 38 million U.S. jobs depend...
23 Aug New England shoe companies out of step on tariff
A fight over footwear is brewing among several major sneaker manufacturers in New England. Six New England-based footwear companies wrote a letter to President Obama's...
22 Aug The TPP Trade Talks: Forget Secrecy, Let’s Talk Substance
The most long-standing trade protectionism issue is import tariffs on goods. Discrimination of this sort is no better than traditional tariff discrimination. To what extent...
31 Jul Froman Seeks Fast Action for TPP, Sidesteps Fast-Track Authority Plan
Trade policy experts say if new fast-track authority passes Congress with new demands that negotiators have not been following, it could create havoc on the...
31 Jul Amazon Creating New Distribution Jobs – An Example of Footwear Jobs That Could Come If TPP Passes With Duty Free Footwear
Amazon.com Inc. says it is adding 7,000 jobs in 13 states, beefing up staff at the warehouses where it fills orders, and in its customer...
31 Jul U.S., Vietnam work toward trade agreement
Obama said after the meeting, "We had a very candid conversation about both the progress that Vietnam is making and the challenges that remain." Sang...