[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 21676]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



            SUPPORT TRADE PROMOTION AUTHORITY FOR PRESIDENT

  (Mr. MANZULLO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MANZULLO. Mr. Speaker, renewing Trade Promotion Authority for the 
President is vitally important for small business exporters. Many will 
be surprised to learn that 97 percent of all U.S. exporters are small 
businesses and that 69 percent of all U.S. exporters employ less than 
20 workers. In addition, the number of small business exporters has 
increased from 66,000 in 1987 to 224,000 in 1999.
  Lowering foreign trade barriers helps small business exporters more 
than large companies. While most large companies can either export or 
set up a factory overseas, most small business exporters have only one 
choice, and that is to export from America.
  There are many complicated issues that face small business exporters, 
such as streamlining foreign customs practice. Let us give the 
President the tools he needs to negotiate away these unfair trade 
barriers.

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