Dow Issues Statement on Free Trade Agreement Progress

Dow welcomes the President’s decision to submit the three pending free trade agreements to Congress and applauds the House Ways and Means Committee for passing the FTAs through mark up today.

"These are critical steps toward revitalizing manufacturing in this country," stated Andrew Liveris, chairman and CEO of The Dow Chemical Company. "American industry, and the manufacturing sector in particular, needs greater access to the world's consumers. Free Trade Agreements do this by opening markets overseas for U.S.-made goods."

“We urge Congress to rapidly pass the FTAs. Doing so will help spur job creation at home and U.S. manufacturing competitiveness abroad,” Liveris noted.

Adoption of the three trade agreements was one of the Fall 2010 recommendations made by the President’s Export Council, of which Liveris is a member and chair of the Council’s subcommittee on Global Competitiveness, as one of the most effective means of increasing the export of U.S.-made goods.

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