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 2022
2022 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
Temperatures Soared in Geneva and So Did the WTO! (6/17/2022) - Washington D.C., June 17, 2022—Despite a shaky start, the WTO negotiators delivered a historic trade deal this morning. After hours… 
USCIB Supports Strengthening Trade, Investment, Economic Ties in Indo-Pacific (2/23/2022) - USCIB was among a dozen other trade associations in submitting a letter to the Biden Administration welcoming the launch of… News Stories
Temperatures Soared in Geneva and So Did the WTO! (6/17/2022) - Washington D.C., June 17, 2022—Despite a shaky start, the WTO negotiators delivered a historic trade deal this morning. After hours… 
Olsen Attends UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Meetings in Senegal on Plastic Pollution (6/15/2022) - In an effort to address global plastic pollution, the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) is seeking to develop an internationally… Press Releases
Temperatures Soared in Geneva and So Did the WTO! (6/17/2022) - Washington D.C., June 17, 2022—Despite a shaky start, the WTO negotiators delivered a historic trade deal this morning. After hours… 
USCIB Joins Global Trade and Industry in Statement to Urge WTO to Renew Moratorium on Customs Duties on Electronic Transmissions (5/18/2022) - May 17, 2022, New York, NY -- The United States Council for International Business (USCIB) joined today nearly 100 other global… 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
