Rob Portman
Rob Portman
Robert Jones "Rob" Portmanis an American lawyer and the junior United States Senator from Ohio, in office since 2011. Previously he served as a congressman, as the 14th United States Trade Representative and as the 35th Director of the Office of Management and Budget...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 December 1955
CountryUnited States of America
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We welcome the progress made today and will continue to press for additional steps to promote greater equity, durability and balance in the US-China trade relationship.
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U.S. trade officials are working to make Hong Kong a success. The U.S. government is totally committed to Hong Kong.
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Overall, our U.S.-China trade relationship today lacks equity, durability and balance.
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Despite three consecutive years of growing U.S. exports to China, our bilateral trade relationship with China today lacks equity, durability and balance in the opportunities it provides. The time has come to readjust our trade policy with respect to China.
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I'm seeing a little bit of a different spirit today. You see people coming together this morning as we discussed to say this ought to be a single-undertaking and we ought to work to bring all of these issues together including trade facilitation, development and rules into one package. Not you go first, then I'll go, but rather we need to do it simultaneously together.
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An agreement with Peru is a key building block in our strategy to advance free trade within our hemisphere. We hope to later bring in the other Andean countries including Colombia and Ecuador.
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The findings confirm that U.S. duties on Canadian lumber to counter were properly imposed under international trade rules,
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We don't believe the world community will let this once-in-a-generation opportunity slip past us,
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While we continue to believe that a long-term, durable settlement is the only way to resolve this dispute, Canada's actions complicate our attempts to reach a negotiated solution,
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There is so much uncertainty out there, and the government in Washington doesn't seem to get it. What's needed is a new business environment.
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Only 15 Democrats voted for it, but I talked with at least twice that many, and almost every conversation ended with, 'I want to work with you on the next one,' ... Having come from Congress, I want to reach out, and begin to rebuild what was once a fairly robust consensus.
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Only days after we fully complied with a NAFTA decision, Canada responds by announcing huge new subsidies. Canada's actions illustrate what the United States has been saying all along: the Canadian industry is the beneficiary of subsidies that create an un-level playing field to the detriment of the U.S. industry.
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On the heels of the G-20 and Australian offerings on sensitive products, we hope to see much more ambition from the EU. The current EU proposal allows for 8 percent of tariffs, 160 different tariff lines, to be deemed 'sensitive' and thus exempt from strong cuts,
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I have made clear that we can not accept a final package on the round that does not have a meaningful services element,