Punke to Testify Before House Trade Subcommittee on Trade Agenda, WTO
The House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee will hold a July 16 hearing on the U.S. trade agenda and the World Trade Organization (WTO), the subcommittee said in an emailed statement. Deputy U.S. Trade Representative and U.S. Ambassador to the…
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WTO Michael Punke is scheduled to testify. “We’d like to explore ways the WTO could more effectively address today’s behind-the-border barriers to trade and continue to address remaining tariff and non-tariff barriers, including sanitary and phytosanitary barriers to agriculture trade that are not based on sound science,” said subcommittee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., in the statement. Areas of focus at the hearing will include "implementation of the Trade Facilitation Agreement and opportunities created by the agreement," the Information Technology Agreement; the launch of the recently notified environmental goods agreement; monitoring and enforcement activities and future work of the WTO, the subcommittee said.