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| http://duncan.house.gov/press-release/business-council-recognizes-duncan-trade-vote | Business Council Recognizes Duncan for Trade Vote | 2015-11-18 | 2015 | 2015-11 | Republican | House | TN | John Duncan | D000533 | duncan.house.gov | legacy | WASHINGTON The U.S. Business and Industry Council (USBIC) recognized Congressman John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-Tenn.) Wednesday for his courageous recent vote against Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), a legislative tool that allows trade bills to be fast-tracked through Congress. The USBIC presented Rep. Duncan with the Defender of the American Economy Award, recognizing his principled vote against TPA and in support of Main Street businesses and manufacturers. The USBIC was founded in 1933 to represent the concerns of Americas national manufacturing business community. I have voted against fast track authority under both Republican and Democratic Presidents, Duncan said. TPA requires Congress to give up the right to even offer amendments, thus giving far too much power to the executive branch. The United States, with only four percent of the worlds population, buys 25% of the worlds goods, Duncan continued. This means every country is chomping at the bit to get into our markets, and we have tremendous leverage on trade that we simply have not used. In a letter to Rep. Duncan, USBIC President Kevin L. Kearns said, You recognized that TPA represents crony capitalism and rubber-stamps the Administrations secret negotiations on trade. You learned from Americas repeated experience under other trade deals that the false promises of new U.S. jobs instead end up with closed American factories, lost jobs, and deeper negative trade imbalances. While it is more convenient for big, multi-national companies to have multi-national trade agreements, it could be much better for small or medium-sized American businesses to have individual trade agreements with each country, Duncan said. We need to tell other countries---especially China---we want to trade with you, but you need to buy some things from us. It is not good, in the long run, for us to have trade deficits in the hundreds of billions each year. We need trade with all other countries, but unfair trade has too often meant we have traded high-paying jobs for low-paying ones, Duncan continued. | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |