TiSI Comments on the U.S. Kenya Strategic Trade and Investment Partnership

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The U.S. and Kenya can focus on the investment environment to promote sustainable and inclusive economic growth. The “informal” sector in Kenya is holding back inclusive growth and domestic and foreign investment. Kenya’s success in fintech and enterprise software suggests it has the homegrown IT competence to solve persistent administrative challenges that inhibit businesses from formalizing operations.

TiSI Testimony on the United States- Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)

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Provisions of the USMCA are important to SMEs and women's economic empowerment. Certain USMCA Articles can level the playing field for SMEs and expand the female labor force participation rate. ​

U.S. Trade Policy: Questions from Congress

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Congressman Paulsen of Minnesota asked how the TiSA would expand exports of health services. This is a growing and valuable services export of the United States. 

TiSI Testimony on the Distributional Effects of Goods and Services Trade and Trade Policy on U.S. Workers

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The intersection of the US economy with services trade takes place digitally online, through investment, and the temporary movement of people. U.S. domestic policies must address the challenges lower income and less skilled workers face in a churning and evolving job market. We must
  • recognize the positive relationship between targeted domestic policies and an open trade stance;
  • consider where U.S. workers are actually employed; and
  • promote the financial, communication, and innovation benefits  services industries bring to the U.S. economy.

TiSI Comments to the U.S. Trade Policy Staff Committee on the African Growth and Opportunity Act

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Technical assistance under AGOA should support fundamental policies that influence the growth of services economies.

Where Is the Common Ground on Trade Policy?

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There is common ground across the political spectrum on certain priorities in US trade policy to create a 21st century economy that returns growth to real wages and expands employment.