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Clarity on Forced Labor Standards, NAFTA Support on USCIB Trade Agenda for 2018

The U.S. Council of International Business will "continue to oppose policies that handicap U.S. trade" in 2018, the USCIB said in its trade agenda. Among those policies are a "lack of clear standards at U.S. customs for forced labor," it…

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said. The trade group will also "urge the Administration not to introduce new proposals in NAFTA that will weaken existing provisions or negate the benefits that U.S. companies derive from the U.S. being part of NAFTA," it said. USCIB will push for trade deals with the EU and Asian countries "to ensure that American goods and services companies have open and fair access to the markets in the Asia-Pacific."