[House Document 107-69]
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                    2001 INTERNATIONAL TRADE AGENDA

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                   THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

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              A LEGISLATIVE AGENDA FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE




May 14, 2001.--Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means and ordered 
                             to be printed
                                           The White House,
                                          Washington, May 10, 2001.
Hon. J. Dennis Hastert,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.
    Dear Mr. Speaker: I am pleased to provide you with an 
outline of my 2001 legislative agenda for international trade. 
I look forward to working closely with you to enact it this 
year.
    The trade agenda reflects my strong commitment to open 
markets around the world for the benefit of American workers, 
farmers, and businesses. I also am committed to open markets to 
provide lower prices and greater choices for U.S. consumers and 
industries. Open trade fuels the engine of economic growth that 
creates new jobs and new income in the United States and around 
the world.
    We have no time to waste in reasserting America's 
leadership on trade. The President has not had trade 
negotiating authority since it expired in 1994. We can no 
longer afford to sit still while our trading partners move 
ahead without us.
    For that reason, I have placed the enactment of U.S. Trade 
Promotion Authority at the top of my trade legislative agenda. 
U.S. Trade Promotion Authority tells the world that the 
President and the Congress are united at the negotiating table 
in seeking to strike the best possible deals for our country. I 
am committed to working with the Congress, on a bipartisan 
basis, to rebuild the consensus needed to allow America to 
reassert its leadership in the trade arena. I hope the enclosed 
framework for U.S. Trade Promotion Authority will help us 
redouble our efforts to secure the benefits of expanded trade 
for the American people.
    I hope you also will join me in moving the other important 
components of my trade legislative agenda to enactment this 
session as well.
            Sincerely,
                                                    George W. Bush.


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