Administration Creates Interagency Task Force On Localization Barriers

摘要

The proliferation of government measures requiring businesses to produce or purchase goods and services locally as a condition of market access has prompted the Obama administration to create an interagency task force to develop a coordinated approach for addressing these "localization barriers to trade." The goal of the task force, established in mid-2012, is to raise the profile of the localization issue within the U.S. government and to forge a common position among agencies so that U.S. officials can engage trading partners with a coordinated message, according to business sources.