Lawmakers Push Preservation of Glassware Import-Sensitive Treatment
The U.S. should retain import-sensitive treatment for domestic glass tableware in final Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) pacts, said a group of eight bipartisan lawmakers in a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman on…
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Dec. 11. Glassware production companies, such as Libbey Inc. and Anchor Hocking Co., are continuing to lobby for preservation of import-sensitive treatment, said the lawmakers. “Libbey and Anchor Hocking join in urging that the TPP and TTIP rules of origin for the listed glassware products should be objective, transparent, predictable, and effective in limiting preferential tariff treatment to goods that are formed, finished, and packaged in TPP and TTIP countries,” said the lawmakers. “The TPP and TTIP market access negotiations should account for the import-sensitivity of these products, placing these products in the category eligible for the longest phase-out periods and eligible, as appropriate, for non-linear phase-out treatment.” Senators Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Rob Portman, R-Ohio, Mary Landrieu, D-La., David Vitter, R-La., and Bob Casey, D-Pa., endorsed the letter, along with and House members Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, Steve Stivers, R-Ohio, and John Fleming, R-La.