U.S. Officials Seek Agricultural Export Boost Through U.S.-China Commission
The 2013 U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) will focus on intellectual property right enforcement, market access for goods and services and bilateral trade barrier elimination, said U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman in a press release. Froman will…
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travel to Beijing, China on Dec. 19-20 to participate in the summit, the release said, along with Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. “America’s farmers and ranchers are extremely productive and they are ready to build on five years of record U.S. agricultural exports,” said Vilsack. “The JCCT provides a meaningful and important venue to work with our Chinese counterparts on critical trade matters that will help open even more markets for U.S. exports, in line with President Obama’s commitment to increase U.S. exports under the National Export Initiative.” U.S. goods exports to China topped $110 billion in 2012, said the release.