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 Fran Eichorst,
Vice President of Public Affairs & Regional Site Leader, Fidelity
Investments- Texas Region
Fran is responsible for government and external community relations, business development support, employee and constituent communications and site business support for the more than 25 Fidelity businesses in Texas. .
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 David E. Daniel,
President,
The University of Texas at Dallas
As President of UTD, Daniel has initiated a broadly inclusive strategic planning process, scaled up UTD’s development and communications programs, reconfigured several key leadership positions, overseen continued growth of the institution’s academic and research programs, launched a campus beautification project, and worked with the DFW community to build new partnerships.
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 It has not taken long for the U.S. agriculture and manufacturing industries to react to tariffs instituted by Mexico earlier this year. According to the National Journal, Mexico placed "some $2.4 billion worth of retaliatory tariffs" on U.S. products after the Obama Administration halted a pilot cross-border trucking program authorized under NAFTA.
Since taking effect, these tariffs have led to lost U.S. jobs, reduced international trade, and higher costs of business for U.S. companies, creating an uneven playing field during challenging economic times. The Dallas Regional Chamber's International Business Council has been monitoring this issue closely and recently joined a coalition in Washington D.C. focused on this issue. The Alliance to Keep U.S. Jobs is a coalition of over 150 agriculture and manufacturing groups advocating before Congress to reinstate the cross-border trucking program so that the U.S. will maintain its compliance with existing NAFTA treaty obligations, thus eliminating the rationale for Mexican tariffs.
The coalition lobbied in support of a provision on the trucking issue included in the Senate version of H.R. 3288, the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill. According to the coalition, this provision "urges the administration to work expeditiously with the Mexican Government to establish a proposal to implement a cross-border trucking program that maintains the safety of our roads and highways and enhances the efficient movement of commerce." This legislation is currently pending conference committee negotiations between the House and Senate before the end of the year.
The Dallas Regional Chamber opposes the decision made by the U.S. Congress to end the pilot project. Furthermore, the chamber believes that our government must foster an environment that supports trade and investment as critical to the economic prosperity to our nation and the DFW region. For more information about the chamber's international legislative activities, contact Jane Edson at jedson@dallaschamber.org or (214) 712-1937.
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