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The California Chamber of Commerce is urging United States and European Union leaders to advance the largest regional trading and investment relationship in the world.
Capitol Report: CalChamber Voices Support for Transatlantic Partnership Agreement
As the new Congress convenes on Tuesday, January 6, the California Chamber of Commerce will send a letter outlining its international trade priorities for the 114th Congress. In addition, a letter will be sent to President Obama, Secretary of Commerce Pritzker, and U.S. Trade Representative Froman. The letters will reiterate CalChamber support for renewing the President’s authority to negotiate trade agreements, pending agreements with Pacific nations and the European Union, and the re-authorization of the U.S. Export-Import Bank.
Longstanding historical, cultural and commercial ties between Mexico and California were in the spotlight yesterday at the luncheon hosted by the California Chamber of Commerce for the Mexico Secretary of Foreign Affairs with California’s Governor and First Lady as special guests.
The importance of trade to the California economy was the focus of an international forum hosted by the California Chamber of Commerce in observance of World Trade Week.
Twenty years after the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) entered into force, trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico has increased and opportunities for improvement remain, a panel of experts told attendees at a California Chamber of Commerce International Luncheon Forum yesterday cosponsored with the Consulate General of Mexico in Sacramento.
In 1985, President Ronald Reagan signed the U.S.-Israel Free Trade Agreement. It was the first FTA the United States entered into, and has served as a model for many future trade agreements. The FTA eliminates all custom duties between the two countries, and has resulted in a huge increase in the overall volume of bi-national trade to total over $35.6 billion in 2021. The U.S. exported over $14.2 billion to Israel in 2022.
The California Chamber of Commerce supported US-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement will go into effect on October 31, 2012. The agreement will significantly increase the ability of American companies to export their products to one of Latin America’s fastest-growing economies, while dramatically reducing the tariff rates across the range of US industrial and agricultural goods.
U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Now in Force! International Trade Administration Blog Post, May 15, 2012U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk to Mark Entry-Into-Force of U.S.-Colombia Trade Agreement, Celebrate World Trade MonthStatement by U.S. Commerce Secretary John Bryson on the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion AgreementSenate Finance Chair Baucus Hails Colombia FTA’s Entry Into ForceHouse Ways and Means Leaders Camp, Brady Statements on U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Entry Into Force Colombian Embassy Launches Newly Updated Website
United States and Singapore Hold Sixth Annual Free Trade Agreement Review
On April 12, 2006, Trade Representative Rob Portman and Peruvian Minister of Foreign Trade, Alfredo Ferrero Diez Canseco, signed the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement in a ceremony at the Organization of American States. Since 2009, US exports to Peru have nearly doubled.
President Bush signed the US-CAFTA-DR on August 2, 2005, giving final U.S. approval of the agreement. This follows a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on July 28 of 217-215. Of California’s representatives to the House, 19 members voted in favor of the agreement, while 34 were opposed. To see how your representative voted, please see the U.S. House of Representatives roll call website.