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HLIGHTS South China Business Journal

Chamber in Action

Chamber Business focus on fully implementing it, so that
Delegation to APEC Summit our consumers, workers, farmers, and
businesses both large and small can begin
U.S. Chamber Senior Vice President Barack Obama and the leaders to realize its shared benefits.”
President for Asia Tami Overby of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
on November 16-20 led a delegation countries met and issued a statement President Obama also offered remarks
of business leaders to participate in that reads in part: “We are pleased that to the group of TPP leaders and trade
the annual meeting of the Asia Pacific the negotiated text of the TPP agreement ministers. U.S. Trade Representative
Economic Cooperation (APEC) in Manila, is now available in full for review and Michael Froman gave remarks during
the Philippines. The group met with consideration before it is signed. We the opening plenary. The APEC Leaders
heads of state and government, U.S. and look forward following signature to the committed to a number of concrete
foreign government officials, and regional expeditious consideration and approval actions to support inclusive economic
business leaders to discuss the priorities of the TPP, consistent with each of growth which can be found at the White
and goals of the U.S. business community. our domestic processes. We will then House Fact Sheet.

Chamber
Advocacy
on Industry
Priorities at
JCCT

Myron Brilliant (R2) and Harley Seyedin, President, AmCham South China (L2) confer regarding market access and product
with Vice Premier Wang Yang approvals, localization barriers to trade
and investment, antitrust, intellectual
U.S. Chamber Executive Vice in a number of high-level events with property protection and enforcement, and
President and Head of International government and business leaders, transparency.
Affairs Myron Brilliant was in Guangzhou including a health program that the U.S. Immediately prior to the JCCT in
for a series of private sector engagements Chamber is supporting as part of the Guangzhou, Brilliant joined a group
tied to the annual meeting of the U.S.- private sector’s engagement at this year’s of CEOs from around the world at the
China Joint Commission on Commerce JCCT. He made efforts to raise concerns biannual meeting of the International
and Trade (JCCT). Brilliant participated on behalf of a variety of industries Advisory Board to Guangdong Governor
Zhu Xiaodan. Brilliant spoke on the topic
of building an innovative economy in
Guangdong, drawing upon lessons from
the U.S. experience.

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