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New Hampshire

New Hampshire Citizens Trade Policy Commission: Established by SB 162 in 2007 "to evaluate the impact of existing and proposed international trade agreements on the ability of the state of New Hampshire and its municipalities to pass laws and ordinances regarding public health and safety, environmental protection, labor standards, state and local procurement, and the provision of public services."

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Procurement:  New Hampshire 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 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

• Gov. Benson's letter to USTR Zoellick signing onto CAFTA's restrictive procurement rules (11/18/03)
• Letter from Legislators to Attorney General Kelly Ayote concerning CAFTA(9/6/04)
• Gov. Lynch's letter to USTR Zoellick rescinding New Hampshire's agreement to be bound by CAFTA's restrictive procurement rules (5/11/05)

In the news

• "New Hampshire Legislature Tells Federal Officials: Don’t Make Trade Commitments Affecting Our State Unless We Authorize It," AFSC (6/04/07)
• "New Hampshire got caught in CAFTA's lobster trap," Concord Monitor (9/05/05)
• "Lynch retracts NH support for CAFTA," Union Leader (5/17/05)
• Public Citizen Press Release: New Hampshire Joins Majority of States in Rejecting CAFTA’s Restrictions on State Procurement Policy (5/16/05)
• "Free Trade Deal Letter Stirs Constitutional Debate," New Hampshire Business Review (9/17/04)
• Press Release, Sen. Sylvia Larsen: Legislators Question Benson's Authority to Include New Hampshire in International Trade Agreements (9/9/04)
• "Democrats Seek Review of Trade Agreement," Union Leader (9/7/04)

Services:

Legislation

• Senate Concurrent Resolution 3 - Urging preservation of traditional powers of state and local governments under international trade agreements

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