Council Highlights
March 2010 Issue

Author Tom Friedman Speaks at January 25th Global Innovation Forum


The Global Innovation Forum on January 25, 2010 hosted 100 invited guests at the Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academies for Advancing U.S. Leadership in Clean Technology Innovation.

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Annual International Human Resource Management Forum Houston
Set for March 10th & 11th 2010

The NFTC will host its annual IHR forum at The Houstonian on March 10-11, 2010. In addition to subject matter experts from Aetna Global Benefits, AIRINC, International SOS, Jackson Lewis LLP and KPMG LLP, the Faculty will include corporate IHR colleagues from such companies as: Bechtel, Chevron, CH2M Hill, ConocoPhillips, GE, and McDermott and others.


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NFTC Urges Congress to Extend Trade Preferences

 
The NFTC joined other leading business community groups in sending a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to extend the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and the Andean Trade Preferences Act (ATPA) before both programs expire at the end of the year.

To read the letter, click here. 

 

 
NFTC Letter Supporting Trade Preferences for Paraguay

On behalf of the members of the NFTC, I am writing to thank you for your leadership in introducing H.R. 1837, the "U.S. – Paraguay Partnership Act of 2009" and in support of this initiative to include Paraguay as a beneficiary of the Andean Trade Promotion Act (ATPA).

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