Gary Locke: “the central mission of the Department of Commerce could not be more straightforward: helping American businesses become…”

I believe that we simply must convey the message that it is in the economic self-interests of the Chinese people and the Chinese Government to have strong intellectual property rights.

If we work in this way to improve the competitiveness of U.S. businesses and take care in monitoring compliance with our trade laws, the end result will be a strengthening of our international economic position, increased domestic job…

We need to use science as the guide, and we need to have open, transparent policies working with the stakeholder groups so they understand the objectives.

We need to hold their feet to the fire. We need to make sure that there are audits that we can all depend on.