Lawmakers: Hands off ‘Buy American’ policies

Trade & Trends

Monday, May 07, 2012

A group of House lawmakers told President Obama not to compromise on the country’s “Buy American” procurement policies during Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement talks. Under the proposed TPP framework, individual states and the federal government would be required to bring existing and future domestic policies into compliance with the agreement. One of the 26 TPP chapters specifically covers government procurement policy. “Failure to conform our do...

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