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Summary-CPA Issues Forum #8-Globalization-June 17, 2008

CPA ISSUES FORUM MEMO:

Globalization and the Growing Divergence Between Corporate and National Interests

                                                                                    prepared by Carolyn Avery, IAS Group, June 17, 2008

Speaker: Ralph Gomory, Research Professor

                NYU Stern School of Business

Charles Wilson famously articulated the enduring idea that what was good for an American company was also
good for the United States. The idea that free trade is good for us is also deeply ingrained in our national
dialogue. But when Intel builds a $2.5 billion high-tech semiconductor plant in China, how does this benefit the
U.S. national interest? As globalization reshapes the relationships between companies, countries, and trade, the U.S. should reassess its ideas about corporate and national interests.


 


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H. R. 2942, Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act of 2007

110th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 2942


To provide for identification of misaligned currency, require action to correct the misalignment, and for other purposes.

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S. 796, Fair Currency Act of 2007

110th CONGRESS

1st Session

S. 796


To amend title VII of the Tariff Act of 1930 to provide that exchange-rate misalignment by any foreign nation is a countervailable export subsidy, to amend the Exchange Rates and International Economic Policy Coordination Act of 1988 to clarify the definition of manipulation with respect to currency, and for other purposes.

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Letter to Paulson re China Currency Manipulation

Press Release from U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow's office dated June 16, 2008:

 STABENOW, COLLEAGUES TO ADMINISTRATION: PUSH THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT TO STOP MANIPULATING ITS CURRENCY

On Eve of Latest Strategic Economic Dialogue with China, Bipartisan Group of Senators Urge Administration to Stand Up for American Businesses, Workers

WASHINGTON--U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Jim Bunning (R-KY), Evan Bayh (D-IN) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) along with a bipartisan group of Senators, including Senator Barack Obama, today sent the following letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson urging the administration to push the Chinese government to stop manipulating its currency and to allow greater appreciation of the renminbi (RMB).


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Summary-CPA Issues Forum #7-An Advanced Technology Race-June 2, 2008

CPA ISSUES FORUM MEMO:

India and China: An Advanced Technology Race and How the United States Should Respond 

                                                                                           prepared by Carolyn Avery, IASG Ltd., June 2, 2008

Speaker:

                   Earnest Preeg, Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI

 

The United States faces great challenges as technologically driven globalization with China and India is changing the global economic order. Yet we cannot devise an effective response unless we first understand the context, nature and likely evolution of these challenges.

The Point of Departure Assessment

Both India and China are emerging advanced technology superstates:

Nations that will almost certainly achieve great economic, technological, and financial status, that will very likely become financially and politically powerful in international affairs, and that will inevitably strive to become military superpowers as well. 

 

 

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