Ensuring Tax Exempt Organizations the Right to Appeal Act -- Motion to Proceed -- Continued

Floor Speech

Mr. COONS. Mr. President, I thank my colleague Senator Isakson of
Georgia and express my shared concern that if we are going to proceed
to a long-term renewal of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which
provides duty-free, quota-free access to the U.S. markets to all of
sub-Saharan Africa--which I support and have worked hard with the
Senator from Georgia and many others to make possible--that we also
ensure there is effective trade enforcement. This is a basic principle
that underlies all the proceedings here today; that those of us who
support free trade and global trade also support fair trade and
effective enforcement.

As the good Senator from Georgia recently commented, we are acting in
reliance upon a representation by the U.S. Trade Representative that
there will be enforcement action taken, if appropriate, on access to
markets in South Africa.

With that, I thank the Presiding Officer and yield the floor.

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