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International trade benefits U.S. importers and domestic manufactures alike, creates new jobs, lower consumer prices and open new markets to U.S. exports.
Thank you Chairman Hatch, for the opportunity to share the concerns and priorities of the National Cotton Council of America (NCC) within the U.S. trade agenda.
This legislation also provided important updates to the traditional TPA framework, including with respect to priority negotiating issues.
The program's ongoing lapse is having a severe impact on these U.S. businesses.
The American people have made it very clear that they will not accept secretly-written agreements that don't see the light of day until the very last minute.
People have the right to know what's at stake in negotiations before they wrap up.
Our trade policies are stronger when the American people are part of the debate.
We are hopeful that the Committee will move forward at the earliest possible date with retroactive renewal of the Generalize System of Preferences (GSP) trade program.
We, as Americans, ought to say--Republicans, Democrats, Independents, whatever--we want our President out there opening up markets.
I'm eager to find ways for this committee to work on a bipartisan basis with the administration to accomplish those goals.
Twenty-five percent, a quarter of manufacturing jobs in Ohio, factory jobs, are now export jobs.
Yet, a number of the countries we are negotiating with basically offer zero protection to intellectual property rights in their countries.
I am disappointed to hear your response to Senator Grassley that that will not be part of the TPP negotiations.
We have to both get more exports out there, but also do a better job of making sure that imports are being fairly traded.
It is critically important, if we are going to see change in Vietnam and Malaysia and Brunei and other countries that do not have that record, that we use this opportunity to achieve those objectives.
We need concrete, predictable and unilaterally--that is a whole new world--unilaterally enforceable mechanisms in place to show the world that we are going to protect our workers and our economy.
That leadership is apparent in our work during the last year to advance the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP.