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Welcome to the Global Business Dialogue, a 21st Century Association for the Global Business Community. Its principal task is to highlight perspectives on global trade and investment and on the issues and decisions that will shape commerce and the world's business environment in the years ahead: 

NEXT EVENT

On June 14 - EU  Perspectives on TTIP.  How the Commission, the EU Parliament, and the Member States see the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership will be the topic at this Friday's GBD Members' Lunch.  Hiddo Houben, the Head of the Trade Section at the EU Delegation in Washington will lead off this discussion, which will run from 12 noon to 1:45 p.m. on Friday. 

Any GBD Member is welcome. To respond, please call the Global Business Dialogue at (202) 463-5074 or send and email to rkmorris@gbdinc.org.

LAST EVENT

On June 12 - TISA, THE SERVICES FRONTIER.  This discussion of the Trade in Services Agreement now being negotiated in Geneva opened with remarks from Ambassador Michael Punke, the U.S. Ambassador to the WTO, and continued with a panel of business experts.  It will was held at the National Press from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. on June 12.  The link above will take you to the original notice for this program.

RECENT POSTINGS

Clayton Yeutter on Japan and TPP.  This is an MP3 recording of Mr. Yeutter's presentation at the May 1 GBD colloquium, Eleven Plus One: Japan's Bid to Join the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations, one May 1, 2013.

From The TPP Apparel Coalition.  This deck of 16 slides was presented by  Stephen Lamar of the American Apparel and Footwear Association at the GBD Colloquium

TPP AND THE TEST OF VIETNAM
at The national Press Club on May 9, 2013

Recordings from the Recent GBD Event:

TPP & THE TEST OF VIETNAM

May 9, 2013
National Press Club
Washington, D.C.

Together, the five recordings below comprise the audio file for this event:

Welcome and the Remarks of Stephen Lamar from the American Apparel and Footwear Association.

Remarks of Jerry Cook from Hanesbrands Inc. on trade in apparel and on the rules the U.S. is proposing for apparel trade in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations. 

Remarks of John Connelly of the National Fisheries Institute on the treatment of catfish (and their close relatives) in trade between the United States and Vietnam.

Remarks of David Salmonsen of the American Farm Bureau Federation on U.S. agriculture's interests in the TPP negotiations with Vietnam.

Concluding Q & A Discussion from TPP And The Test of Vietnam.

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"I am delighted that Stornoway Black Pudding has been awarded Protected Geographical Indicator status by the European Commission. ... Now when you see Stornoway Black Pudding you know that it is the genuine high quality product, you know where it has been produced and you know it is directly benefiting the Islands economy."

Rhoda Grant, MSP
Both on May 8, 2013
(Publications Date)

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