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title: "ITIF Applauds New Jobs & Trade Competitiveness Act"
summary: |-
  TIF applauds today’s introduction of H.R. 2756, the Jobs & Trade Competitiveness Act, co-sponsored by Reps. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), Sandy Levin (D-MI), Linda Sánchez (D-CA), Brian Higgins (D-NY), Terri Sewell (D-AL), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), and Judy Chu (D-CA). The Act calls for urgently needed reforms such as providing more funding for trade enforcement activities, creating a chief manufacturing negotiator and chief trade prosecutor, and instituting congressional review of America’s trade agreements for purposes of ensuring trade partners are meeting their commitments.
date: "2017-05-26"
content_type: "Press Releases"
canonical_url: "https://itif.org/publications/2017/05/26/itif-applauds-new-jobs-trade-competitiveness-act/"
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# ITIF Applauds New Jobs & Trade Competitiveness Act

WASHINGTON—The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), the top-ranked U.S. science and technology think tank, today released the following statement from Stephen J. Ezell, ITIF vice president for global innovation policy, welcoming H.R. 2756, the Jobs & Trade Competitiveness Act, which was introduced today in the U.S. House of Representatives:

*America’s enterprises and workers thrive when global trade is conducted on free, fair, and market-based terms. Unfortunately, a growing number of nations are subverting the rules with “innovation mercantilist” policies that use unfair trade practices such as production and export subsidies, dumping, local content requirements, intellectual property and technology theft, or simply denying market access to U.S. firms so their firms have a leg up on American competitors. Such policies have contributed to a U.S. global trade deficit of $5.3 trillion over the past decade and to the loss of almost 4 million U.S. jobs in the 2000s. This situation is unsustainable. It’s time for the United States to significantly step up its trade enforcement and compliance activities to ensure its trade partners are playing by the rules they’ve committed to uphold.*

*ITIF applauds today’s introduction of H.R. 2756, the Jobs & Trade Competitiveness Act, co-sponsored by Reps. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), Sandy Levin (D-MI), Linda Sánchez (D-CA), Brian Higgins (D-NY), Terri Sewell (D-AL), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), and Judy Chu (D-CA). The Act calls for urgently needed reforms such as providing more funding for trade enforcement activities, creating a chief manufacturing negotiator and chief trade prosecutor, and instituting congressional review of America’s trade agreements for purposes of ensuring trade partners are meeting their commitments. The Act would further bolster U.S. manufacturing by creating a tax credit that would reward jobs created through insourcing. The proposals included in the Act deserve serious consideration. ITIF welcomes this renewed focus on trade enforcement, because it is equally as important as opening markets.*

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*Source: Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF)*
*URL: https://itif.org/publications/2017/05/26/itif-applauds-new-jobs-trade-competitiveness-act/*