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Domestic manufacturers and workers have no voice in crafting trade rules.

Publication: Manufacturing & Technology News
Publication Date: 19-OCT-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Senate Bill S-1631 creates a new Office of Trade within the agency. Within that office, a new "Trade Advocate" will also be created to "report directly to the Assistant Commissioner of Customs." This new position will be required to consult regularly with the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) and the Trade Support Network, both comprised of members of the private sector. The CBP's Trade Office is responsible for regulations and rules regarding preferential tariff treatment under free trade agreements, "Buy American," and country-of-origin marking laws.

COAC is mentioned repeatedly and prominently in the reauthorization bill. The committee does not have any representation from domestic manufacturers, farmers or workers, groups that have been impacted by the free flow of imports.

In the bill sponsored by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the CBP Commissioner is told that he or she must "solicit and consider on a regular basis input from the private sector including the Commercial...

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