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Sparky Anderson, who managed World Series-winning teams in Cincinnati and Detroit, once remarked, “We’re getting close to opening day. I don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing.” January 3rd, 2013 marked American policymaking’s opening day: the start of the 113th Congress. We in the tech industry see the start of a new season of policymaking as a good thing because ours is an industry rooted [...]
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Today, the President signed into law a bill establishing Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) with Russia, bringing to closure years of work spent opening the growing Russian market to American goods and services. The new law represents a victory for American workers and businesses, and will deliver a welcome boost to the U.S. economy at a time when it needs it most. The enactment of PNTR legislation [...]
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Today, the tech industry celebrates another critical step towards normal trade relations with Russia as the Senate, by a vote of 92-4, decisively passed legislation to establish permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with Russia. We commend the Senate for taking swift action today on a bill that ensures enforcement of Russia’s WTO commitments and puts the needs of American workers and businesses [...]
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Today, the tech industry celebrates the successful House passage of the Russia PNTR legislation. We commend the House for acting in a strong bipartisan fashion to put the needs of American businesses and workers first. The final vote tally was 365-43. Now it’s the Senate’s turn. Majority Leader Reid has stated that passing Russia PNTR is on his agenda for the lame duck session of congress. Let’s [...]
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Next week, President Obama will leave Washington for a three-nation trip to Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia. Media reports ahead of the trip note that Thailand is likely to announce its interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations which have been gaining momentum. While in Cambodia, the President will participate in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meetings [...]
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Now that we've turned the page on the campaign season, Congress has the opportunity to focus on measures that will help revitalize the American economy. This week, we see an opportunity to do exactly that as the House of Representatives is expected to vote on legislation that would establish a permanent, normal trade relationship (PNTR) with Russia and waive outdated Cold War-era emigration laws that [...]
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The leaders of APEC 21 economies gathering in Vladivostok over the weekend made good progress toward promoting growth and innovation around the world. For the tech industry, a big boost came with the inclusion of this pearl in the 2012 Leaders’ Declaration: "We welcome the ongoing work to expand the product coverage and membership of the WTO Information Technology Agreement (ITA) and instruct our [...]
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AMD, a semiconductor design company with growing operations in Brazil, recently hosted ICT Brazilian ministers and officials at its Silicon Valley headquarters to discuss emerging computing market trends. Attendees discussed the importance of open standards and regulatory policies to drive innovation, and today’s data center, cloud, embedded, client and ultra-low power technology solutions. Initiated [...]
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As we recap last week's Silicon Valley visit by the delegation of Brazilian government officials, eBay sent over this look at the session it hosted. The piece was originally published at eBay's Main Street Public Policy site. With abundant natural resources, robust financial system and massive domestic market of free spending consumers, Brazil shapes as one of world's hottest investments destinations [...]
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Last week, ITI and several of our member companies in Silicon Valley hosted a Brazilian government delegation for a week of discussions and demonstrations designed to create a greater understanding between government and innovators, and to foster a stronger relationship moving forward. ITI’s Dean Garfield takes a look at lessons learned during the visit. The slowing global economy has intensified [...]
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