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Ways & Means, Ag Committee Members Demand SPS Enforceability

September 6, 2013 at 12:13 AM
A bipartisan group of 76 House lawmakers is pressing U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman to ensure that rules on sanitary-and-phytosanitary (SPS) measures are fully enforceable in both the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade agreements. For both agreements, U.S. negotiators have pledged to go beyond the SPS obligations of the World Trade Organization. In an Aug. 7 letter, 19 out of 39 Ways & Means members and 19 out of 46 members of the House...

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