Archive: Free Trade

  • Resolution on Unilateral Trade Sanctions March 15, 2013

    Resolution on Unilateral Trade Sanctions Summary This resolution cautions against the use of unilateral trade sanctions to achieve international policy goals.  While the bill does not prohibit their use, it discourages their use until most, if not all, other options [...]

  • Resolution in Support of Intellectual Property Rights Protection March 15, 2013

    Resolution in Support of Intellectual Property Rights Protection Summary This resolution recognizes the importance of protecting Intellectual Property (IP) both domestically and beyond our borders. Intellectual property theft has a significant impact on economies around the world, and the sale [...]

  • Resolution in Support of Deepening U.S-Georgia Trade Relations March 15, 2013

     Resolution in Support of Deepening U.S-Georgia Trade Relations  Summary This resolution encourages the United States to strengthen and deepen its trade and economic relations with the Republic of Georgia including but not limited to initiating negotiations on a US-Georgia Free [...]

  • Hard Science Resolution March 15, 2013

     Hard Science Resolution Summary Free-market economies are the best method of ensuring quality products for consumers while providing goods at the lowest cost, but unnecessary regulations can encroach on this process. Ideally, regulations passed by nations should be limited to [...]

  • Resolution on Trade Promotion Authority March 15, 2013

    Resolution on Trade Promotion Authority Summary This resolution supports the extension of trade promotion authority (TPA) to the President of the United States, something every US President has enjoyed since 1974 until it was rejected by Congress in 2011.  TPA [...]

  • Resolution to Recognize and Commend the United States-Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership and Its Global Significance of Enhanced Cooperation between the United States and Indonesia March 15, 2013

     Resolution to Recognize and Commend the United States-Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership and Its Global Significance of Enhanced Cooperation between the United States and Indonesia Summary This resolution applauds the current Presidential Administration for embarking on a US-Indonesia comprehensive partnership. The partnership [...]

  • Resolution Urging the Obama Administration to Launch Negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement with Taiwan March 15, 2013

    Resolution Urging the Obama Administration to Launch Negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement with Taiwan Summary Basing support on ALEC’s guiding principle to advance free markets, this resolution urges the President of the United States to launch negotiations with Taiwan [...]

  • Resolution Urging the European Union to Remove Its Ban on the Sale of Smokeless Tobacco March 15, 2013

    Resolution Urging the European Union to Remove Its Ban on the Sale of Smokeless Tobacco Summary The European Union’s (EU’s) current ban on the sale of snus is in direct violation of one of its own governing principles – that [...]