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A Year After Unveiling, 'PITAC' Stalled Due To Fight Over Secrecy Rules

February 26, 2015 at 9:45 PM
One year after U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman announced a new Public Interest Trade Advisory Committee (PITAC) in a February 2014 speech outlining the Obama administration's "values-driven trade policy," efforts to create the committee appear to have been shelved due to a stalemate between USTR and public interest groups over the committee's rules around information sharing. Numerous sources from public interest groups said the PITAC has not yet been formed, and indicated that USTR has not engaged with them to...

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