Congress has passed trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama a day ahead of a meeting between South Korea’s president and President Obama Thursday. The bipartisan vote comes after five years of delays. The Computer & Communications Industry Association praised the bipartisan cooperation that allowed measures to offset harm to some sectors from the…
The Computer & Communications Industry Association welcomes the news that the White House is sending the trade agreements with Korea, Colombia and Panama to Congress for approval. As the leading export industry of the U.S., the high-tech sector in particular benefits greatly from expanded trade. CCIA has continued to support these agreements, especially the Korea…
The Computer & Communications Industry Association welcomes the news that the Senate Finance Committee will finally move forward with a mock markup on the three pending free trade agreements (FTAs) with Korea, Panama and Colombia. The markup would also include an extension of Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), a program that has long been an important…
Brussels – The Computer & Communications Industry Association has sent letters about the intellectual property provisions in upcoming free trade agreements and the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement to the president of the European Parliament, committee chairs and members of the European Commission today. The letter notes that the information and communications industries support free trade agreements, but they are deeply…
The Computer & Communications Industry Association is offering the following statement in response to several news reports that Intel is now suing the Korean Fair Trade Commission. The KFTC found Intel’s practice of offering rebates tied to customers not buying from competitor Advanced Micro Devices illegal. It fined the biggest microprocessor producer 26 billion won…
The Computer & Communications Industry Association commends the Federal Trade Commission for opening up a formal antitrust investigation into Intel’s alleged anticompetitive practices. This news comes days after Korean antitrust regulators fined Intel $25 million for abusing its dominant position in the microprocessor market and the European Commission announced plans to rule in their case…
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