For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
May 10, 2001
Text of a Letter from the President to the Congressional Leadership and Chairmen and Members of Committees
May 10, 2001
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. con-sumers and
indus-tries. 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 com-mitted 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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The President's 2001 International Trade Agenda
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