Some of the Members participating in the hearing saw the necessary corrective step to be to ensure that Commerce was included in future negotiations on defense sales.

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Given his past record of service as Secretary of Commerce, he was invaluable in all these negotiations.

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Hector Figueroa, president of 32BJ Service Employees International Union, played a role in negotiations, and several chambers of commerce heads praised Ms. Quinn for bringing competing interests together.

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Negotiations with Cuba about re-establishing commerce will need to be probing and vigorous.

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Will the experience of the FS-X debate lead to a more orderly and disciplined U.S. interagency process on future projects of a similar nature, in particular the systematic involvement of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative in negotiations over defense sales with the Japanese?

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It then started negotiations with the Muncie-Delaware County Chamber of Commerce and the Indiana Economic Development Corporation.

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After two years of failed negotiations, Mendes Junior brought the case to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris.

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The expectation appears to be that, by so doing, Commerce will effectively enjoy primer inter pares status in future defense cooperation and similar negotiations.

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Jeffrey Kovar, assistant legal adviser for the U.S. State Department, who has been representing the U.S. in these ongoing negotiations, testified in a June House subcommittee hearing that the "widening gap" between global commerce and individual court systems could inhibit growth in trade.

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