It is great to see you here today, and we appreciate the tremendous work you all are doing to reform this complex system in the U.K.
Clearly, granting PNTR at this point to Russia does not give us leverage.
My home State of Louisiana has a real stake in this. We are a State that depends very heavily on trade and exports.
So clearly building a trade relationship with Russia would help us work with them to alleviate those concerns.
But I firmly believe that a vibrant, growing trade relationship with Russia based on rule of law with real enforcement mechanisms and the co...
Our trade policy in this is a critical part, a component, of our foreign policy.
I want to thank you for the series of hearings we are having on these temporary tax provisions.
I think we all agree that evasion of our trade remedy laws is a serious problem, and additional authorities, perhaps legislation, is going t...
The PROTECT Act makes circumvention a priority trade issue that Customs must address.
By introducing the PROTECT Act, Congressman Boustany and Richmond have given me some hope that in the future, Customs enforcement may not be...
We will work with you to hopefully get the system even better.