BUY AMERICA,
BUY NATIONAL
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ITEMS
7 Items
as of February 19, 2009
February 17, 2009 -
Final
Version of the Buy America Language.
This is excerpt from
the final version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of
2009 contains the final version of the Buy America language in H.R.
1, as signed by President Obama on February 17, 2009.
(Item 6)
February 17, 2009 -
Concerns of
Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters.
This is a letter from
Jayson Myers, the president of Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters,
to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, with copies to other
Canadian officials. The letter was sent two days before
President Obama's scheduled visit to Ottawa. In it, CME's
president urged the Prime Minister to ask President Obama to issue
an Executive Order, clarifying the limits of the Buy America
language in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the
status of Canadian suppliers who bid on the projects that will flow
from that legislation.
(Item 5)
February 11, 2009 -
Buy America: Key to America's Economic Recovery.
This paper was
prepared by
Terence P. Stewart
and Elizabeth
J.
Drake
from the law
firm of Stewart
and Stewart and
published by the
Alliance for American
Manufacturing.
It argues for the Buy America language of the House and Senate bills
and provides a rebuttal to arguments against these provisions.
(Item 4)
February 9, 2009 -
Letter from Non-U.S. Business Organizations.
Executives from
several of leading non-U.S. business groups, some with offices in
Washington, sent a letter to the Congressional Leadership on
February 9, urging them "to strip from the final language of the
[stimulus] bill anything that others could characterize as breaking
the promise made at the G20 conference in November," in other words,
anything that would be seen as "new barriers to investment or
trade."
The letter was
addressed to House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi,
House Minority Leader
John Boehner,
Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid,
and Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell.
The signatories were:
Diego Zancan Bonomo
for the Brazil
Information Center/Brazil Industries Coalition,
Rhian Chilcott
of the CBI
(Confederation of
British
Industry),
Thomas d'Aquino
for the
Canadian
Council of Chief Executives,
Kiran Pasricha
for CII (the Confederation of
Indian
Industry),
Michael Maibach
for the
European-American
Business Council,
Edward Chang
for The Federation of
Korean
Industries,
Atsushi Yamakoshi
for Keidanren-USA of
Japan,
Bernhard
Welschke for
the Representative of
German
Industry and Trade, and
Abdul Akyuz
for the U.S. Office of
Turkish
Industrialists' and
Businessmen's Association.
(Item 7)
February 5, 2009 -
An
MP3 recording of the Februar5 GBD colloquium Trade
and the Stimulus Bill: A Discussion of the Buy National Provisions
of H.R. 1.
This recording
includes remarks by
Scott Paul,
Exeutive Director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing;
Laurence Lasoff,
a partner with Kelley Drye & Warren;
Calman Cohen,
president of the
Emergency Committee
for American Trade;
Willard Berry,
president of the National Association of Foreign Trade Zones; and
Jeffrey Schott,
senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
(Item 3)
February 5, 2009 -
GBD
Papers, February 5.
This is a pdf file of
the paper distributed by
the Global Business Dialogue at the Colloquium on Trade and the
Stimulus Bill.
(Item 2)
February 2, 2009
-
Buy America, Bad For Jobs, Worse for Reputation.
This paper by
the Gary Clyde Hufbauer
and Jeffrey J.
Schott of the
Peterson Institute for International Economics
was quickly became an important part of the
debate that surrounding the Buy America provisions of the stimulus
bill, now law as section Section 1605 of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009.
(Item 1)
