Trends and Challenges Facing U.S. Business:
- Opening global markets for trade and investment can generate much needed economic growth and job creation in the U.S. and around the world if policymakers take the steps needed to address protectionist policies.
- Without investment, both inward and outward, economies stagnate and citizens suffer.
Eva Hampl delivers testimony on
behalf of USCIB at U.S. Department of Commerce
Committee Chair Rick Johnston (Citi); USCIB CEO Peter Robinson;
and Rob Mulligan discussing trade with OECD and BIAC leadership
Shaun Donnelly speaking at the OECD
Global Forum on International Investment
Read the USCIB Trade and Investment Agenda 2021
2021 AgendaUSCIB’s Response:
- Stress the importance of U.S. engagement and leadership in creating and enforcing rules for international trade and investment in forums such as the WTO and OECD.
- Press for progress on advancing 21st century standards for the full range of services trade.
- Discourage counter-productive measures that undercut our international commitments or could lead to retaliatory measures that hurt U.S. companies and workers.
- Advocate for broad policies and for specific investment agreements which strengthen the policy and legal environment for FDI.
Magnifying Your Voice with USCIB:
- USCIB is the only U.S. business association formally affiliated with the world’s three largest business organizations where we work with business leaders across the globe to extend our reach to influence policymakers in key international markets to American business
- Build consensus with like-minded industry peers and participate in off-the-record briefings with policymakers both home and abroad.
Positions and Statements
USCIB Welcomes Commitment by G7 to Inclusive Global Recovery (6/16/2021) - Following the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Cornwall, UK, the United States Council for International Business (USCIB) welcomes the G7’s resolute… 
USCIB Defends Foreign Direct Investment at OECD (4/14/2021) - USCIB has led private sector participation at a series of recent events organized by the OECD’s Investment Committee. Kimberley Claman,… News Stories
USCIB Issues ATA Carnet Advisory on Brazil; Brazil to Terminate Carnet as of January 1 (12/22/2021) - New York, N.Y., December 22, 2021 — As the National Guaranteeing and Issuing Association (NGA and IA) for ATA Carnet… 
Vietnam to Join Global “Merchandise Passport” System in Spring 2022 (12/20/2021) - Vietnam is set to become the seventy-ninth member country to accept ATA Carnets for the temporary, duty-and tax-free importation of… Press Releases
USCIB Issues ATA Carnet Advisory on Brazil; Brazil to Terminate Carnet as of January 1 (12/22/2021) - New York, N.Y., December 22, 2021 — As the National Guaranteeing and Issuing Association (NGA and IA) for ATA Carnet… Vietnam to Join Global “Merchandise Passport” System in Spring 2022 (12/20/2021) - Vietnam is set to become the seventy-ninth member country to accept ATA Carnets for the temporary, duty-and tax-free importation of… Op-Eds and Speeches
Donnelly Co-Authors Op-Ed in The Hill on Commercial Diplomacy (2/3/2021) - USCIB Senior Advisor Shaun Donnelly and his longtime State Department colleague Ambassador (ret.) Tony Wayne recently co-wrote an op-ed in… 
Op-Ed: Business Must Come Together to Respond to COVID-19 Now (3/30/2020) - Earlier this month, nearly 500 experts in public health, law and human rights wrote an open letter to U.S Vice… Chair
Charles R. (Rick) Johnston
Managing Director, Global Government Affairs
Citigroup Inc.
Staff
Alice Slayton Clark
Director, Investment, Trade and China
asclark@uscib.org
Staff
Brian Lowry
Senior VP, Innovation, Regulation, and Trade
blowry@uscib.org
Christopher Olsen
Policy Manager, Regulation and Trade
(202) 617-3156 or colsen@uscib.org
