Congressman BradyENGAGEMENT DELIVERS

USA*Engage is a coalition of businesses, agriculture groups and trade associations working to promote the benefits of U.S. engagement abroad and educate the public about the ineffectiveness of unilateral economic foreign policy sanctions. USA*Engage believes that positively engaging other societies through diplomacy, multilateral cooperation, the presence of American organizations, the best practices of American companies and humanitarian exchanges better advances U.S. objectives than punitive unilateral economic sanctions. Learn More

  Congressman Kevin Brady [R-TX8]
 

 

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USA*Engage, was established in 1997 to address the recurring imposition of unilateral economic sanctions as a substitute for the rigors of diplomacy. A broad-based coalition of manufacturing, agricultural and services producers, USA*Engage continues to advocate that the people-to-people intelligence and understanding conferred by commercial engagement trumps the demonstrable failure – witness Cuba and Iraq – of interdictions on commercial activity.
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USA*ENGAGE Blog
Friday, 13 April 2012
Engage Russia through Normalized Trade
By Dan O'Flaherty
When Russia joins the WTO this summer American business will be at a clear disadvantage in that market unless Congress exempts Russia from the 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment.
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Are the Costs of Sanctions Worth It?
By Richard Sawaya
Congress decamped before April Fools’ Day, with no Senate agreement to vote on S 2101, the Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Human Rights Act of 2012. Majority Leader Harry Reid (R-NV) offered to bring the bill to the floor under unanimous consent (no amendments), but Senators Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Rand Paul (R-KY) refused to go along.
Friday, 24 February 2012
There is No Free Lunch (or Free Votes)
By Richard Sawaya
As economists will swear, the hardest thing to demonstrate is what might have been. Yet it’s clear that had Iran’s crude oil sales not been targeted for an indirect embargo in the pursuit of “crippling sanctions,” the current spike in U.S. gasoline prices would not be taking place.