USTR is increasingly concerned by rights holders' reports that Alibaba Group's enforcement program is too slow, difficult to use, and lacks transparency.
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Brand owners continue to report that Alibaba platforms, particularly Taobao, are used to sell large quantities of counterfeit goods.
There are many countries around the world that do not fully embrace this potential.
Today, a business can set up shop wherever it wants and sell all kinds of products over the Internet.
The digital economy provides U.S. businesses of all sizes with great opportunities and challenges.
Over the last decade, the digital economy has dramatically changed our way of life.
That is one reason why I insisted on including language in our recently passed customs bill that directs Homeland Security to develop and carry out an educational campaign to inform travelers about the legal, economic, and public health…
The digital trade negotiating objective in the new TPA law directs the administration to do a number of things in order to protect the Internet as we know it.
Put simply, that is not a wise or sustainable approach to dealing with the Internet.
Those hurdles are magnified. They are compounded to a very significant degree in a public land state like mine.
Without pipeline infrastructure you cannot rely on natural gas as a way to generate electricity.
I am increasingly worried about the politicization of infrastructure projects.
The endless litigation that we are seeing and the political pressure campaigns that we are seeing waged by anti-development, fringe activists will inhibit Utah's growth.
We urge you to renew the biomass stove tax credit, part of Sec. 25(C), as you consider tax policy reform.
As the Committee considers the future of energy tax policy, we write to urge a multi-year extension of the Section 1790 tax deduction for energy efficient commercial and multifamily buildings.
We also support Ranking Member Wyden's technology-neutral clean energy tax incentive proposal (S. 2089).