{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://miller.house.gov/media/press-releases/miller-participates-ways-and-means-trade-hearing-us-trade-negotiation", "Miller Participates in Ways and Means Trade Hearing on U.S. Trade Negotiation Priorities", "2025-03-25", "2025", "2025-03", "Republican", "House", "WV", "Carol D. Miller", "M001205", "miller.house.gov", "miller", "https://miller.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today, Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) participated in a Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee hearing to review the United States\u2019 trade negotiation priorities in order to help further expand fair trade opportunities for U.S. businesses.\n\nImage\n\nCongresswoman Miller began by reflecting on the United States\u2019 need to strengthen trade relations in the Indo-Pacific to increase the U.S.\u2019 standing within the region and deter China's global trade dominance.\n\n\u201cThe Indo-Pacific is an essential strategic foothold to combat China\u2019s quest for global economic dominance. The economies in the Indo-Pacific are rapidly developing. The growing personal wealth of the citizens in the Indo-Pacific provides more export opportunities. The advances in the region\u2019s manufacturing sector enables us to diversify our supply chain away from China. Unfortunately, we are falling severely behind as China makes significant strides. While the United States has not concluded a single trade agreement with an Indo-Pacific partner in more than 10 years, China concluded negotiations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to enhance their massive free trade area in October 2024. This is why I re-introduced the U.S. Trade Leadership in the Indo-Pacific Act with several of my colleagues on this committee. This bill will make significant inroads to further our partnerships in the region,\u201d said Congresswoman Miller.\n\nCongresswoman Miller asked Jonathan Root, the Chief Financial Officer and President of Commercial, Harley-Davidson, Inc. to share his thoughts on how the lack of trade in the Indo-Pacific region affects U.S. companies and how Congress should address this.\n\n\u201cMr. Root, as you are aware, our lack of engagement in the Indo-Pacific has left the door open for these nations to stifle bilateral trade by imposing significant trade barriers on American products. This includes remarkably steep tariffs on Harley Davidson motorcycles. Could you speak to the importance of the Indo-Pacific as an export market? What can Congress do to overcome the barriers that are currently in place?\u201d asked Congresswoman Miller.\n\n\u201cWe certainly believe that Asia Pacific presents a significant opportunity over the mid-term and the long-term from a Harley-Davidson perspective. We recognize that there are unique trade pacts that are in place that certainly provide some benefit to those who manufacture within that region. Many of our competitor brands have plants in Thailand that certainly ensure low tariff access to those ASEAN markets. Many Asian nations' trade agreements allow exports from Thailand into those markets duty-free and that does provide a significant advantage for them and a disadvantage for direct exports from the U.S. into those markets. We obviously do ask for, again, a level playing field that gives American workers the ability to export their products with equal treatment,\u201d responded Mr. Root.\n\nCongresswoman Miller highlighted how U.S. digital companies are receiving unfair treatment from other countries when it comes to trade. She then asked Christine Bliss, the President of Coalition of Services Industries (CSI) what the U.S. should do to protect American companies.\n\n\u201cAs we engage in these important trade negotiations, it is important we work to strengthen the emerging sectors of our economy, particularly in the digital services economy. President Trump and my colleagues on both sides of the aisle are keenly aware of the unfair treatment United States technology companies are facing, by even our closest allies, including Canada and South Korea. It is pertinent that we put a stop to this, and to ensure our future agreements adequately protect U.S. companies from harmful policies. \u200b\u200bMs. Bliss, what provisions should we include in our future trade agreements to make sure that our digital and service companies are adequately shielded from unfair treatment?\u201d asked Congresswoman Miller.\n\n\u201cI agree with you. It\u2019s a very, very serious problem and I think, first and foremost, data flows underpin all digital and virtually all services trade. I would say that this is one very key element we need to see in all of our trade agreements. Secondly, we need to see a prohibition on data localization, which often is coupled with restrictions on data flows. Third, and perhaps most importantly, we need to see a strong non-discrimination provision, which really goes to the core of your question. Whether you\u2019re looking at India in the case of the Indo-Pacific or you\u2019re looking at [South] Korea, one of our closest allies, I think having a strong non-discrimination provision is absolutely essential that we include in our agreements. Particularly in [South] Korea where we are facing legislative proposals, regulatory proposals for discriminatory online platform regulation, I think it\u2019s essential that that happened there, and also that we frankly are facing both in [South] Korea and China harassment of U.S. firms through unfair regulatory and enforcement actions. I would say those three provisions are probably very, very key in terms of negotiation and resolving those issues,\u201d responded Ms. Bliss.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T00:15:27Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://miller.house.gov/media/press-releases/miller-participates-ways-and-means-trade-hearing-us-trade-negotiation"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.808881923556328, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}