Hearing: China’s WTO Compliance and Industrial Subsidies

April 4, 2006

Room 2325 Rayburn House Office Building
Independence Ave. & South Capitol Street, SW

Cochairs: Commissioners Michael Wessel and Peter Brookes

AGENDA

OPENING STATEMENTS

• Opening Statement of Vice Chairman Carolyn Bartholomew [Remarks]
• Opening Statement of Chairman Larry M. Wortzel [Remarks]
• Opening Statement of Commissioner Michael Wessel [Remarks]
• Opening Statement of Commissioner Peter Brookes [Remarks]

Tuesday, April 4

Panel I: Congressional Perspectives on China’s WTO Compliance and Use of Subsidies

• Congressional Members Invited

Panel II: Administration Perspectives on China’s WTO Compliance and Use of Subsidies

• Mr. Timothy Stratford, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, Washington, DC [Testimony]

Panel III: China’s WTO Accession Agreement and U.S. Law

• Mr. Loren Yager, Director, International Trade, Government Accountability Office, Washington, DC [Testimony]

Panel IV: Chinese Economic Planning and the Role of Subsidies

• Dr. Usha C. V. Haley, Associate Professor, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT [Testimony] (Power Point)
• Dr. Gregory Chow, Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (Power Point)

Panel V: Currency Manipulation as an Industrial Subsidy

• Dr. C. Fred Bergsten, Director, Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC
• Mr. David Hartquist, Member, Collier Shannon Scott PLLC, Washington, DC [Testimony]
• Mr. Robert Baugh, Executive Director, Industrial Union Council, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC [Testimony]
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Panel VI: Impact of Chinese Industrial Subsidies on U.S. Industries

• Mr. Alan Price, Partner, Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP, Washington, DC [Testimony]
• Mr. John Magnus, President - TradeWins, LLC, Washington, DC [Testimony]