AGENDA
Hearing on "Challenging China’s Trade Practices: Promoting Interests of U.S. Workers, Farmers, Producers, and Innovators"
Thursday, April 14, 2022
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 419, and Webex
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Hearing Co-Chairs: Commissioner Robin Cleveland [Opening Statement] and Commissioner Michael Wessel [Opening Statement]
9:30 AM – 9:40 AM: Co-Chairs' Opening Remarks
9:40 AM – 11:10 AM: Panel I: Competitiveness Concerns: Subsidies, Excess Capacity, Market Access, and Non-Tariff Barriers
- Clyde Prestowitz, Founder and President, Economic Strategy Institute [Testimony]
- Nazak Nikakhtar, Partner, Wiley Rein [Testimony]
- Alicia García-Herrero, Senior Research Fellow, Bruegel [Testimony]
11:10 AM – 11:20 AM: Break
11:20 AM – 12:50 PM: Panel II: Innovation, Technology, and Intellectual Property Concerns
- Emily Kilcrease, Senior Fellow and Director, Energy, Economics and Security Program, Center for a New American Security [Testimony]
- Stephen Ezell, Vice President of Global Innovation Policy, Innovation Technology Innovation Foundation [Testimony]
- Mark Cohen, Senior Fellow and Director, Berkeley College of Law and Technology Asia Intellectual Property Project [Testimony]
12:50 PM – 1:35 PM: Lunch Break
1:35 PM – 3:35 PM: Panel III: Regional Economic and Trade Engagement
- Deborah Elms, Executive Director, Asian Trade Centre [Testimony]
- Wendy Cutler, Vice President, Asia Society Policy Institute [Testimony]
- Timothy L. Meyer, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University [Testimony]
- Lori Wallach, Director of Rethink Trade, American Economic Liberties Project [Testimony]
3:35 PM – 3:50 PM: Break
3:50 PM – 4:50 PM: Panel IV: China and the WTO
- Robert Staiger, Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College [Testimony]
- Terence P. Stewart, Former Managing Partner, Stewart & Stewart LLP [Testimony]
4:50 PM – 4:55 PM: Closing Remarks
4:55 PM: Adjourn