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U.S.- CHINA | ECONOMIC and SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION

U.S.-China Economic AND Security Review Commission

Hearing: China and the WTO: Assessing and Enforcing Compliance

February 3-4, 2005

Dirksen Senate Office Building
1st & Constitution Avenue, NE
Washington, DC

Co-Chairs: Commissioners Patrick A. Mulloy and June Teufel Dreyer

AGENDA

OPENING STATEMENTS

  • OPENING STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN C. RICHARD D'AMATO [Remarks]
  • OPENING STATEMENT BY VICE CHAIRMAN ROGER W. ROBINSON, JR. [Remarks]
  • OPENING STATEMENT BY CO-CHAIR JUNE TEUFEL DREYER [Remarks]
  • OPENING STATEMENT BY CO-CHAIR PATRICK A. MULLOY [Remarks]

Thursday, February 3 - Room 124, Dirksen Senate Office Building

Congressional Perspectives I: China in the WTO

  • Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND)
  • Congressman Sander Levin (D-MI) [Remarks]
  • Congressman Ted Strickland (D-OH) [Remarks]
  • Congressman Tim Ryan (D-OH) [Remarks]
  • Senator Larry E. Craig (R-ID) [Remarks]
  • Senator Mike DeWine (R-OH) [Remarks]
  • Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI) [Remarks]

Congressional Perspectives II: The Continued Dumping and Subsidies Offset Act and China’s Unfair Trade Practices

  • Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) [Remarks]
  • Congressman Sherrod Brown (D-OH) [Remarks]
  • Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) [Remarks]
  • Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) [Remarks]
  • Congressman Bob Ney (R-OH) [Remarks]
  • Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) [Remarks]

Panel I: Administration Views

  • Henry A. Levine, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Asia Pacific Policy [Testimony]
  • Shaun E. Donnelly, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Economic Bureau Trade Policy Promotion [Testimony]
  • Randal Quarles, Assistant Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs (statement submitted for the record) [Testimony]

Panel II: Evaluating Available Trade Remedies

  • Terence P. Stewart, Managing Partner, Stewart & Stewart Law Offices [Testimony]
  • Alan Wolff, Partner, Dewey Ballantine LLP [Testimony]

Panel III: Strategies for Enforcement - Exchange Rate Practices

  • C. Fred Bergsten, Director, Institute for International Economics
  • Franklin Vargo, Vice President for International Economic Affairs, National Association of Manufacturers [Testimony]
  • David Hartquist, Partner, Collier Shannon Scott PLLC [Testimony]

Panel IV: Strategies for Enforcement - Textiles

  • Cass Johnson, President, National Council of Textile Organizations [Testimony]
  • Auggie Tantillo, Executive Director, American Manufacturing Trade Action Committee Statement [Testimony]
    • Tantillo Tables (PDF)
  • Harris Raynor, Vice President, UNITE HERE
  • Erik O. Autor, Vice President and International Trade Counsel, National Retail Federation [Testimony]
  • Julia Hughes, Vice President for International Trade and Government Relations, U.S. Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel [Testimony]

Friday, February 4 – Room 192, Dirksen Senate Office Building

Panel V: Evaluating U.S. Efforts to Monitor and Improve China’s Compliance

  • Loren Yager, Director of International Affairs and Trade, Government Accountability Office [Testimony]

Panel VI: Strategies for Enforcement – IPR

  • Eric Smith, President, International Intellectual Property Alliance [Testimony]
  • Timothy Trainer, President, International Anti Counterfeiting Coalition [Testimony]
  • Jason Berman, former Chairman and CEO, International Federation of the Phonographic Industries [Testimony]

Panel VII: Strategies for Enforcement - Agriculture

  • Nancy Foster, President, U.S. Apple Association [Testimony]
  • Gary C. Martin, President and CEO, North American Export Grain Association [Testimony]
  • Michael Coursey, Member, International Trade and Customs Law, Collier Shannon Scott PLLC [Testimony]