Alliance for Fair Information Practices — Promotes the balance between protecting personal privacy and the economic and social benefits derived from information practices involving the collection and use of personally identifiable, demographic, credit, financing, transaction and medical information.
Staff Contact: Jeanne Cain
International
California Coalition for Free Trade
A broad-based group of California companies and business organizations working to secure Congressional approval of the Free Trade Agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea. In joining the coalition, we will include your company's or association's name on the rapidly growing list of those supporting the Agreements. We will keep you apprised of our activities and bring to your attention ways that you can be supportive of the FTAs.
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Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling
The American Business Coalition for Doha (ABCDoha)
An umbrella group of companies, associations and other organizations dedicated to achieving ambitious results from the current round of multilateral trade negotiations in the World Trade Organization, known as the Doha Development Agenda or Doha Round. For further information visit www.abcdoha.org
Staff contact: Susanne Stirling
Federation of International Trade Associations
Founded in 1984, fosters international trade by strengthening the role of local, regional, and national associations throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada that have an international mission. For further information visit: www.fita.org.
Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling
Latin America Trade Coalition
A broad-based group of U.S. companies and business organizations working to secure Congressional approval of the Trade Promotion Agreements with Colombia, Panama, and Peru. The coalition meets regularly to advocate the highest commercial standards in the agreement and to discuss strategy for eventually securing Congressional ratification of the Latin Trade Promotion Agreements. The Coalition currently has more than 540 companies and associations involved. For further information visit http://www.latradecoalition.org/portal/latc/default
Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling
Trade for America
Trade for America is a diverse coalition of companies and trade associations from every sector of the U.S. economy committed to securing renewal of trade negotiating authority and the benefits of trade for American workers, farmers, and consumers. For further information, visit www.tradeforamerica.org/
Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling
TradeRoots
TradeRoots is the only sustained, national trade education program dedicated to raising grassroots support and public awareness about the importance of international trade to local communities. Through strong partnerships with associations, local chambers of commerce, economic development groups, and the business community, TradeRoots takes the U.S. Chamber's message of promoting free enterprise and individual opportunity to local communities across the country. Visit: http://www.traderoots.org/home.asp
Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling
U.S.-Korea FTA Business Coalition
Broad-based group of over 100 leading U.S. companies and trade associations that strongly support the conclusion and passage of a free trade agreement between the United States and the Republic of Korea. The Coalition will work to ensure the negotiation of a comprehensive and commercially viable FTA with Korea that advances the interests of the U.S. business community and promotes further bilateral trade and investment. For further information, visit: www.uskoreafta.org
Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling
U.S.-Malaysia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Business Coalition
A coalition of organizations and companies strongly committed to promoting the negotiation, passage, and implementation of a commercially meaningful and comprehensive bilateral FTA between the United States and Malaysia. Made up of over 50 American business organizations and individual companies from a broad range of industries, the Coalition is the premier voice representing US business interests in the US-Malaysia FTA process. For further information, visit: http://www.us-asean.org/US-Malaysia%20FTA/index.asp
Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling
U.S.-Thailand Free Trade Agreement Business Coalition
A group of U.S. companies and businesses that will lobby for a premium agreement, and to ensure U.S. business interests are well represented. For further information, visit: www.us-asean.org/us-thai-fta/
Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling
U.S.-Vietnam WTO Coalition
A broad based group of companies and business organizations supporting the granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations for Vietnam and accession into the World Trade Organization. For further information visit www.usvtc.org/coalition.asp.
Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling
USA * Engage
A broad-based coalition launched in 1997 representing American business and agriculture. This coalition is an effort to encourage policymakers at the federal, state and local levels to seek more effective ways of reacting to objectionable actions and policies of foreign governments other than by imposing unilateral economic sanctions. To learn more visit: www.usaengage.org.
Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling
Waterfront Coalition
Is a group of concerned business interests representing shippers, transportation providers, and others in the transportation supply chain committed to educate policy makers and the public about the economic importance of ports, and to promote the most efficient and technologically advanced ports for the 21st century. For further information visit: www.portmod.org.
Staff Contact: Susanne Stirling
Legal Reform
Advancing Disability Access Coalition (ADA Coalition)
Promotes statewide efforts to facilitate better compliance with disability access laws, to encourage resolution of access issues without litigation, and to reduce the use of litigation as a means of seeking monetary profit rather than improved access.
Staff Contact: Kyla Christoffersen
Intellectual Property Rights Working Group
Consists of CalChamber members who are interested in being involved with CalChamber policy development and advocacy efforts in the area of intellectual property rights (IPR) and want to keep apprised of pending state legislation or policy issues having an impact on IPR.
Staff Contact: Kyla Christoffersen
Taxation
Business and Taxpayers for Fair Fees
Works to reverse the damage caused by the Sinclair Paint Supreme Court decision. The Sinclair Paint decision wipes out taxpayer protections and exposes taxpayers to a new array of tax-like fees by authorizing state and local governments to levy tax-like fees on business and individuals in California without a popular vote for local taxes and without a two-thirds legislative vote for state taxes.
Staff Contact: Kyla Christoffersen