Last February, this administration issued an executive order creating the International Trade Enforcement Center, or ITEC, in large part to improve efficiency in bringing trade enforcement actions.

I am very concerned with the deterioration in the environment for protection of U.S. intellectual property rights and innovation in India.

I will submit my other questions so you can answer them in writing.

I am very disturbed by India's recent decision to issue a compulsory license for an important medicine on entirely specious grounds.

USTR is an agency in crisis.

The American people are essentially being told that they should do as the Obama administration says, not as they do.

The United States may enter into a bilateral investment treaty with India.

Trade is an engine of economic growth.

I believe he has complied, and he has lived within the law.

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, Mr. Froman, for appearing here today and joining with us.

Yet India increasingly shuts U.S. companies out of its market through a variety of measures.

I have a very high opinion of you. You come well-recommended, and there is no question about your dedicated service, no question about your intelligence, in my eyes.

Without the President's active leadership and public support for TPA, it is hard to see how our current efforts to renew Trade Promotion Authority can succeed.

So, actually it seems to me that suspension of GSP might be the last bullet to shoot rather than the first.

Obviously, it is a two-way street. And also, frankly, it would really ratchet up the unemployment in Bangladesh, and I think that is something that at least we ought to have as a consideration.

This is, according to what I understand, one of the most horrific accidents, industrial accidents in history, and it certainly deserves everyone's attention.

I guess I am asking what you want them to do.

Are you satisfied with the progress so far?