Political Quotes

“First, I yield 10 seconds to the gentleman from Washington. Mr. McDERMOTT. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Madam Speaker, in a letter to the president of the Committee to Support U.S. Trade Laws, the Ambassador of the Trade Representative, Mr. Kirk, said there is nothing in the trade treatment that will weaken the international rules or U.S. laws to address unfairly traded imports that injure U.S. industry and workers. The specific trade remedies provisions you raise are carefully crafted by our negotiators to mean that they will not adversely affect the efficacy of relief under U.S. anti-dumping and countervailing duty laws. Executive Office of the President, The United States Trade Representative, Washington, DC, April 13, 2011. Gilbert B. Kaplan, President, Committee to Support U.S. Trade Laws, c/o King & Spalding, LLP, Washington, DC. Dear Mr. Kaplan: Thank you for your recent letter regarding certain provisions in the trade remedies chapter of the U.S.- Korea trade agreement (KORUS). Let me assure you that the Administration is committed to maintaining strong and effective trade remedy laws. There is nothing in KORUS that will weaken the international rules or U.S. laws to address unfairly traded imports that injure U.S. industries and workers. The specific trade remedies provisions you raise in your letter were carefully crafted by U.S. negotiators to ensure that they would not adversely affect the efficacy of relief under U.S.…”