TRADE

Trade directly spurs the economy and creates jobs by expanding markets for American business. However, we need to ensure that free trade is also fair trade. Many of our trading partners impose myriad tariff and non-tariffs barriers on America’s exports. Our businesses must have reciprocal access to foreign markets through negotiating market-opening agreements. We must also enforce our trade agreements while holding foreign governments accountable for their illegal practices, including ending currency manipulation, piracy and illegal subsidies. That is why I have introduced legislation that would allow the United States to slap countervailing duties on any foreign country misaligning its currency. Finally, we should look inward to change our own counterproductive trade policies, including modernizing our export control laws, our restrictive business visa policies, and the growing tendency of our government agencies to procure more and more goods and services from abroad.