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Mar152016

Commerce Department's Tariff Tool to Include Trans-Pacific Partnership Countries

Trade and InvestmentFTA Tariff ToolTrans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today announced that the Department’s International Trade Administration has updated its Free Trade Agreement Tariff Tool (FTA Tariff Tool) to include the latest information on tariffs on U.S. products exported to Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) partner markets. When enforced, the TPP will eliminate more than 18,000 foreign import taxes that various...

Mar152016

Commerce and Treasury Announce Significant Amendments to the Cuba Sanctions Regulations Ahead of President Obama's Historic Trip to Cuba

Trade and InvestmentCubaCuban Assets Control Regulations (CACR)Export Administration Regulations (EAR)
Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced significant amendments to the Cuban Assets Control Regulations (CACR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). These changes, coupled with the arrangement recently announced by the Departments of State and Transportation allowing...

Mar142016

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker to Attend the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit

InnovationPresidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship (PAGE)EntrepreneurshipGlobal Entrepreneurship Summit (GES)
Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker announced she will attend the seventh annual 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), hosted by President Barack Obama in Silicon Valley. As the Administration's point person on entrepreneurship, Secretary Pritzker will be accompanied by 10 of the Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship (PAGE). ...

Mar112016

First EU-U.S. Innovation and Investment in the Digital Economy Dialogue

DataTrade and InvestmentEU-U.S. Privacy ShieldDigital Economy
Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker hosted the first Innovation and Investment in the Digital Economy Dialogue with Vice President of the European Commission, Andrus Ansip, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The high level exchange included a bilateral meeting between the two leaders, and a roundtable discussion with invited senior industry representatives from both...

Mar112016

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker to Join President Barack Obama in Cuba and Argentina

Trade and InvestmentCubaU.S.-Cuba Regulatory Dialogue
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker will join President Barack Obama on his historic trip to Cuba and Argentina later this month. President’s Export Council Chair Ursula Burns, Chairman and CEO of Xerox, and Vice Chair Arne Sorenson, President and CEO of Marriott International will also travel to Cuba in order to gather facts on the ground about the economic and commercial opportunities and...

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