Finance Chair Says President's Trade Agenda Fails to Adequately Address Beef, FTAs
On March 1, 2011, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Baucus (D) criticized the President’s trade agenda for failing to address Korea’s continued restrictions on U.S. beef as well as the Agenda’s lack of a timeline or specific steps to complete the Colombia and Panama Free Trade Agreements (FTAs).
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(The Senate Finance Committee has scheduled a hearing on March 9, 2011 on the President’s 2011 trade agenda. Baucus and Ranking Member Hatch have called on the U.S. Trade Representative to identify at the hearing any additional steps that Panama or Colombia should take and to provide an expeditious timetable for moving the FTAs through Congress. See ITT’s Online Archives or 02/17/11 news, 11021719, for BP summary announcing the hearing.)