United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2005-04-14 monographic deposited born digital 13 p. GA 1.13:GAO-05-554T https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-554T P0b002ee180374c8b f:d05554t DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-554T machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-554T GAO-05-554T Foreign trade policies Interagency relations International agreements International economic relations International law International organizations International trade International trade regulation International trade restriction Trade policies Textile industry China Testimony A21699 Today's hearing takes place not only at a time of increasing trade between the United States and China but also amidst a period of ongoing concern about the growing U.S. trade deficit with China, which totaled $162 billion in 2004. Managing this relationship with one of the United States' most important trading partners is an effort that calls upon the resources of nearly every aspect of the U.S. trade policy apparatus. Our ongoing body of work has examined several aspects of this apparatus, including U.S. government efforts to ensure China's compliance with complex and far-reaching World Trade Organization (WTO) commitments, as well as the federal government's application of available trade remedies against China. As part of that work that has been issued to date, we have recently put forth a number of recommendations to the key executive branch agencies about how to improve the U.S. government's efforts in these areas. To provide Congress with an update on these issues, this statement discusses (1) the key findings and recommendations from our recently issued work on U.S. government efforts to ensure China's compliance with WTO commitments, as well as U.S. efforts to protect U.S. intellectual property rights overseas and (2) issues related to how the United States has applied a key trade remedy--the China textile safeguard. These observations are based on a series of reports initiated at the bipartisan request of various congressional committees. That work has included an analysis of China's commitments, surveys and interviews with private sector representatives, the results of two annual assessments of the U.S. government's compliance efforts, a review of overseas intellectual property rights protection, and, most recently, a review of the China textile safeguard. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-554T/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-554T.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-554T/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-554T.pdf GAO-05-554T https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-05-554T Testimony GAO-05-554T; U.S.-China Trade: Opportunities to Improve U.S. Government Efforts to Ensure Open and Fair Markets; Foreign trade policies Interagency relations International agreements International economic relations International law International organizations International trade International trade regulation International trade restriction Trade policies Textile industry China