This bill included a critical affordability provision, which the Senate insisted on an 18 percent individual annual cap.

We really have to be careful with this.

There is a big threat under way for China and some of these countries to steal this intellectual property and to undermine the domestic creative industries here in America.

Well, I am very interested in you all setting up a shrimpgate or a crawfishgate as soon as you all can.

Do you know how many convictions on Honeygate?

I was very happy that I was able to convince the International Trade Commission to launch a full investigation into the Mexican sugar industry for dumping low-cost sugar on the American markets.

You can keep some of what you earn in that way?

I am even more concerned that these schemes, which conceal the origin of commodities, may also compromise consumer safety.

I remain very concerned that the illegal dumping of foreign goods continues to impact hard-working Americans in a wide range of industries.

Stopping illegal dumping and robustly enforcing our trade laws is important to protect and grow jobs here at home.

Do you all have that authority?

If you can give us the convictions and the average term of time that was awarded?

So we can conclude for sure based on your 20 years of data that you are giving us that most of those protests will not be upheld.

So it is $2.3 billion, approximately.

Thank you all for that excellent testimony.

the language in the fiscal year 2014 appropriations report was a huge step in the right direction

Chairman Landrieu, you and the subcommittee know about this because you have been trying to get answers and solutions from Customs for a long time.

We further thank Chairman Landrieu for directing Customs to review the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations membership.