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More than 95% of consumers live outside the United States. Selling more U.S.-made goods and services around the world is crucial to American jobs and will help businesses small and large grow. Expanding trade also enhances the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturers while boosting the buying power of American families. The International Affairs Division of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce leads the business community’s efforts to shape global policy.
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How Business Is Fortifying the U.S.-Australia AllianceA more systematic approach from government and business alike can improve economic security for both countries.
By Shannon Hayden
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Why the Africa Growth Opportunity Act Must Be Renewed
By Ellington Arnold
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) today released its seventh annual International Intellectual Property (IP) Index, “Inspiring Tomorrow,” which analyzes the IP climate in 50 world economies. The report ranks economies based on 45 unique indicators that are critical to an innovation-led economy supported by robust patent, trademark, copyright, and trade secrets protection.
Score Improves from Previous Ranking
This letter was sent to the House Committee on the Judiciary, opposing H.R. 948, the No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act (NOPEC).
This letter was sent to both chambers of Congress in support of the “Trade Security Act.”
January 30, 2019 TO THE MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce strongly supports, and urges you to cosponsor, the “BicameralCongressional Trade Authority Act,” and opposes, and urges you to reject calls to cosponsor, the“Reciprocal Trade Act.”
The UK edges closer to crashing out of the EU without a deal.
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce strongly supports, and urges you to cosponsor, the “Bicameral Congressional Trade Authority Act,” and opposes, and urges you to reject calls to cosponsor, the “Reciprocal Trade Act.”
Testimony by Marjorie Chorlins, U.S. Chamber vice president of European Affairs and executive director of the U.S.-UK Business Council, delivered during a hearing of the Office of the U.S. Trade Represenative on a proposed U.S.-UK trade agreement.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced today that Patrick Ottensmeyer, President and CEO of Kansas City Southern, has been tapped as U.S. Chairman of its U.S.-Mexico Economic Council.
Congress must begin work soon to reauthorize the bank, and the Senate must confirm a quorum for its board.