Due Date or Code United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement: Likely Impact on the U.S. Economy and on Specific Industry Sectors, (lnv.

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Comments to the International Trade Commission, re: USMCA Docket # ITC-2018-0375 Michael Palmedo American University Washington College of Law Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property I work for the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) at the American University Washington College of Law.

Econometric tests presented below demonstrate the positive relationship between this openness of copyright exceptions and returns to foreign affiliates of U.S. firms in these industries.

We pointed to the U.S.-proposed language in the Trans-Pacific Partnership that required countries to try to endeavor to achieve an appropriate balance in its copyright and related rights system, among other things by means of limitations or exceptions ... including those for the digital environment.

To control for other factors that ought to affect industry returns, we run a series of panel regressions testing the relationship of openness to each of the three dependent variables: net income, total sales, and value added.

The coefficients on the control variables are also positive and significant, as expected, and R2s between 0.67 and 0.79 indicate a good 10 The data is available at the two-digit North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) level of disaggregation.

North American trade has become an important source of business for the U.S. trucking industry, directly supporting tens of thousands of jobs and generating billions of dollars in revenue annually.

Since 1995, the value of goods traveling via truck across both the northern and southern borders jumped 172% and totaled $720 billion in 2017.

2 United States Trade Commission Seeks Comment on USMCA likely impact on the U.S. economy and on specific industry sectors, Investigation number TPA‐105‐003, released October 12, 2018.

In summary, North American trade supports a significant number of jobs and revenue in the U.S. trucking industry.

If the USMCA keeps the amount of trade between the U.S. and Mexico and Canada the same or even increases from NAFTA levels, the trucking industry will benefit.

SOCMA Comments on United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement: Likely Impact on the U.S. Economy and on Specific Industry Sectors; Institution of Investigation and Scheduling of Hearing

Withdrawal for the industry would trigger reversion to the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement and Mexico’s Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) status.

SOCMA members need a seamless transition allowing time to adjust supply chains ahead of new USMCA rules and withdrawal would add considerable costs.

SOCMA supports elimination of the prohibition on the use of duty drawback, similar to provisions found in free trade agreements executed after NAFTA.

Manager, Legal and Government Relations Society of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates (SOCMA) 1400 Crystal Drive, Suite 630 Arlington, VA 22202

Turkey: Currently, Canada's market access level for a given year is the greater of its commitment under the WTO or under NAFTA.

USMCA TRQ-CA8 has been designed so that total tariff free access for U.S. turkey into the Canadian market cannot be less than if NAFTA were in effect.

In the 160 million kg scenario, the formula would allow for slightly more than 1,000 MT additional U.S. turkey to enter Canada duty free during the first 10 years of TRQ implementation.

The United States will remain eligible to export up to 21.37 million dozen eggs under Canada’s WTO tariff rate quota regime.

Broiler Hatching Eggs Currently, Canada's market access level for a given year is the greater of its commitment under the WTO or under NAFTA.

However, even with a healthy domestic industry, history has shown that fastener manufacturers must sometimes import raw material because the particular types of steel needed are not available in the quantities, quality or form required.

The evidence of harm to the broad economy grew quickly, leading President Bush to terminate the Global Safeguard order after only eighteen months instead of the full three years, but by then 1.3 million manufacturing jobs in steel consuming and related industries had been lost.

study from the Trade Partnership estimates that the 232 steel and aluminum tariffs, in combination with the countermeasures they have provoked, will eliminate around 400,000 U.S. jobs on net in affected sectors.

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