Hearing on China and the WTO: Assessing and Enforcing Compliance
Hearing Co-Chairs: Commissioners Patrick A. Mulloy and June Teufel Dreyer
February 3-4, 2005
Dirksen Senate Office Building
1st & Constitution Avenue, NE
Washington, DC
OPENING STATEMENTS
- OPENING STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN C. RICHARD D'AMATO (HTML) (PDF)
- OPENING STATEMENT BY VICE CHAIRMAN ROGER W. ROBINSON, JR. (HTML) (PDF)
- OPENING STATEMENT BY CO-CHAIR JUNE TEUFEL DREYER (HTML) (PDF)
- OPENING STATEMENT BY CO-CHAIR PATRICK A. MULLOY (HTML) (PDF)
PARTICIPANTS and TESTIMONY: (Click on a name to read participants bios and the remark icon link to read prepared remarks in an HTML page or a PDF file by clicking the link associated with each individual)
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) (HTML) (PDF)
- Congressman Ted Strickland (D-OH) (HTML) (PDF)
- Congressman Tim Ryan (D-OH) (HTML) (PDF)
- Senator Larry E. Craig (R-ID) (PDF)
- Senator Mike DeWine (R-OH) (HTML) (PDF)
- Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI) (HTML) (PDF)
- Congressional Perspectives II: The Continued Dumping and Subsidies Offset Act and China’s Unfair Trade Practices
- Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) (HTML) (PDF)
- Congressman Sherrod Brown (D-OH) (HTML) (PDF)
- Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) (HTML) (PDF)
- Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) (HTML) (PDF)
- Congressman Bob Ney (R-OH) (HTML) (PDF)
- Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-NY) (HTML) (PDF)
Panel I: Administration Views
- Henry A. Levine, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Asia Pacific Policy (HTML) (PDF)
- Shaun E. Donnelly, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Economic Bureau Trade Policy Promotion (HTML) (PDF)
- Randal Quarles, Assistant Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs (statement submitted for the record) (PDF)
Panel II: Evaluating Available Trade Remedies
- Terence P. Stewart, Managing Partner, Stewart & Stewart Law Offices (HTML) (PDF)
- Alan Wolff, Partner, Dewey Ballantine LLP (PDF)
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 (PDF)
- David Hartquist, Partner, Collier Shannon Scott PLLC (HTML) (PDF)
Panel IV: Strategies for Enforcement - Textiles
- Cass Johnson, President, National Council of Textile Organizations (HTML) (PDF)
- Auggie Tantillo, Executive Director, American Manufacturing Trade Action Committee Statement (PDF)
- Tantillo Tables (PDF)
- Harris Raynor, Vice President, UNITE HERE
- Erik O. Autor, Vice President and International Trade Counsel, National Retail Federation (HTML) (PDF)
- Julia Hughes, Vice President for International Trade and Government Relations, U.S. Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel (PDF)
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 (PDF)
Panel VI: Strategies for Enforcement – IPR
- Eric Smith, President, International Intellectual Property Alliance (HTML) (PDF)
- Timothy Trainer, President, International Anti Counterfeiting Coalition (HTML) (PDF)
- Jason Berman, former Chairman and CEO, International Federation of the Phonographic Industries (HTML) (PDF)
Panel VII: Strategies for Enforcement - Agriculture
- Nancy Foster, President, U.S. Apple Association (HTML) (PDF)
- Gary C. Martin, President and CEO, North American Export Grain Association (HTML) (PDF)
- Michael Coursey, Member, International Trade and Customs Law, Collier Shannon Scott PLLC (PDF)
- Additional Material Submitted for the Record: Statement of Kevin M. Burke, President and CEO, American Apparel & Footwear Association (HTML) (PDF)