ITC Nominee Broadbent Says She Understands Need for Objectivity in Injury Determinations

Meredith Broadbent, nominee for commissioner on the International Trade Commission, pointed to her past experience in Congress and as a negotiator at the USTR as qualifications to serve as commissioner in testimony before the Senate Finance Committee May 8, 3012. Broadbent is nominated for a term on the ITC expiring June 16, 2017.

Broad experience in international trade as a staff member in Congress and as a trade negotiator at USTR, has prepared her to assume a leadership position at the ITC, she said. With Congress having completed pending free trade agreements and a new template for the next generation of agreements is being developed, its an exciting time for trade, she said. As Congress works through novel issues and hone new negotiating objectives, the ITC can provide data and analytical support to inform your policy deliberations, said Broadbent.

"Congress and the administration are working hard to enhance the rules-based trading system and its ability to address unfair import competition and increasingly complex trade and non-tariff barriers," she said in written testimony. "A record of fair and objective import injury investigations and import-based intellectual-property determinations will be an element in helping you and your colleagues build bipartisan support for a new trade agenda among U.S. workers, farmers and businesses." Broadbent said she also understands the importance of objectivity in rendering injury determinations and the legislative intent behind the countervailing duty and anti-dumping laws.

(See ITT's Online Archives 11110733 for summary of the announcement of Broadbent's nomination).