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Washington

Washington Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Trade Policy:  Established in 2003 to monitor the impacts of the WTO agreements, NAFTA and proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas on state law, and "provide a mechanism for legislators and citizens to voice their opinions and concerns about the potential impacts of these trade agreements to state and federal government officials."

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Procurement:   Washington governors have committed the state to be bound to the following trade agreements’ restrictive government procurement provisions:

• World Trade Organization Agreement on Government Procurement (for a list of the 38 countries party to the WTO AGP, click here)
• U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement
• U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement 
• U.S.-Australia Free Trade Agreement
• U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement 
• Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)

Correspondence

• USTR Zoellick's letter to Gov. Gregoire's requesting that she sign the state on to the government procurement rules in the U.S.-Panama FTA and AFTA (1/27/05).
• USTR Zoellick's letter to Gov. Locke concerning procurement (8/13/04)
• Gov. Locke's letter to USTR Zoellick clarifying his September 2003 letter to Zoellick (6/17/04)
• Gov. Locke's letter to USTR Zoellick signing onto CAFTA's restrictuve procurement rules (9/30/03)

In the News

• Rep. Velma Veloria on Lou Dobbs' series, "Exporting America" (5/7/04)

Services

Correspondence

• Letter from Washington House of Representatives to USTR Schwab on domestic regulations (4/4/07)
• Letter from Govs. Gregoire, Rendell and Spitzer to USTR Schwab expressing concerns over WTO domestic regulations negotiations (3/30/07)
• Letter from the National Association of Attorneys General to USTR Zoellick on GATS (7/2/03)

Investment:

Correspondence

• Gov. Gregoire's letter to USTR Portman on the investor-state dispute provisions of international trade agreements (08/19/05).
• Letter from 29 State Attorneys General to USTR Portman expressing concerns over the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) (5/31/05)

Related Articles

• "Canadians want U.S. to pay for beef ban," The Seattle Times (02/23/05).

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