Data from the Trade
Adjustment Assistance program show the extent to which individual industries were certified as affected by foreign trade.(6)
In a study covering the last 6 years, the companies that have participated in the Trade
Adjustment Assistance Program have enjoyed, on average, an increase in sales of 46% and employment of 19%.
Hatch said that congressional negotiators have worked out a compromise that will include the renewal of expired trade programs including Trade
Adjustment Assistance, the Generalized System of Preferences and the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act.
Approaches involving
adjustment assistance, education, taxes, and
* reauthorization and full funding of the Trade
Adjustment Assistance Act, which provides our industry with technical assistance, marketing and export promotion.
Whether votes will take place on any of the three FTAs depends in large part on whether Republicans allow a vote on renewing trade
adjustment assistance, a government benefit provided to eligible workers who lose their jobs due to imports.
WASHINGTON - Employees of Tyco Safety Products in Westminster are among 4,000 workers from companies in 18 states who may seek federal trade
adjustment assistance, the U.S.
Trade
Adjustment Assistance consists of several programs: Trade
Adjustment Assistance for Workers (TAA), Alternative Trade
Adjustment Assistance (ATAA), Trade
Adjustment Assistance for Firms, Trade
Adjustment Assistance for Farmers, and a Health Coverage Tax Credit (HCTC).
It estimated that Congress and the administration could fund NEW Scholarships by redirecting $1.5 billion already allocated for the Dislocated Worker Employment Training Program and the Trade
Adjustment Assistance and North American Free Trade Transitional
Adjustment Assistance Programs.
The Trade
Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training competitive grant program expands community college partnerships with employers in high-demand job industries so students are ready for employment when they graduate.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) has outlined a sequence for congressional passage of the three pending free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea, and renewal of trade
adjustment assistance for workers harmed by trade.
Department of Labor has announced a solicitation for applications under the Trade
Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant Program.