Hearing: China’s Impact on the North Carolina Economy: Winners and Losers

September 6, 2007

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, Kenan Conference Center – Room 204
Skipper Bowles Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-1550.

Hearing Co Chairs: Commissioners Jeffrey Fiedler and Dennis Shea

AGENDA

Panel I: North Carolina’s Changing Economy

Rick L. Weddle, President and CEO of the Research Triangle Park Foundation of North Carolina (PDF)
Dr. Patrick J. Conway, UNC Economist and expert on globalization’s effects on textiles and on the efficacy of trade remedies (PDF)

Panel II: How China Trade Has Affected North Carolina’s Economy

Dr. Gary Gereffi, Director, Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness, Duke University (HTML) (PDF)
Betty McGrath, Manager, Policy Program Evaluation and Research, North Carolina Employment Security Commission (HTML) (PDF)

Panel III: Case Studies of China’s Impact on the Furniture, Tire, Textile, and Clothing Industries

Panel IV: Case Study of China’s Impact on the New Economy

Michael Chen, Vice President of Corporate Marketing, Red Hat Software—Headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC and has a service/sales center in China.

Panel V: How Existing Remedies to Unfair Trade Have Performed in North Carolina: The Bedroom Furniture Industry and the Textile Industry

Wyatt Bassett, President, Vaughan-Bassett Furniture of Elkin, NC (HTML) (PDF)
James Chesnutt, President and CEO of National Spinning Co., Inc. of Washington, NC (HTML) (PDF)

Panel VI: The Human Costs to North Carolina of China Trade, and Ameliorating Those Costs

Dr. H. James Owen, President, Piedmont Community College (HTML) (PDF)
Mr. Thomas J. White, Director, Business and Industry Services, North Carolina Department of Commerce, Raleigh, North Carolina

Open Microphone: Listening to the People of North Carolina

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