Any further debate . Very briefly. It is hard to understand how having cast the votes in the senate on Human Trafficking and then say that has a negotiating objective, our own country that puts out a trafficking persons report and labels countries by tiers of how good to how bad they are that some of the worst offenders should get access to our market. Now somebody can get off the tier three provision by cleaning up their act and then they are eligible. But i dont understand how it is a problem to make that determination and make that one of our negotiating objectives. We reached an agreement that solves the problem. All i can say is i appreciate the senator and his feelings about this but i hope we vote it down. Clerk will call the role. Mr. Graphing . No. Mr. Roberts . No. Mr. Roberts no. Mr. Cornan . [inaudible conversation] mr. Thuscott . No. Inaudible roll call mr. Nelson . Mr. Menendez . Mr. Corker . Mr. Bennett . Mr. Warner . Chairman votes no. The amendment is agreed to. Who is
Negotiating objective. This is straightforward improvement in the act and makes no changes in the language that was negotiated on a bipartisan basis by the committee. The only change is the is to move it from section 2a11 to the end of section 2b. The reason relates to effective enforcement in the rule of law dwoesh dwoesh negotiating objectives. In particular, the dispute settlement objectives require ustr to seek provisions that treat the United States principal negotiating objectives yawly with respect to the availability to resort to dispute settlement under the applicable, availability of equivalent remedies. As for principle trade objective, objectives. Therefore, by moving this from overall to principle, we do get the enforcement that i have been talking about at some time. Mr. Chairman let me just make this clear and ill be glad to ask mr. White the question. We have cleared with the ustr that this amendment is consistent with their negotiations of the trans pa sifb community a
They are a transit country. Mr. Chairman, please not in order. Malaysia is a destination and source and transit country for men, women and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking. Many of the companies known as outsourcing Companies Recruit workers from foreign countries. Contractor based labor where the employee is employed by the Company Creates day to day issues for emp employers. Contract recruitment and fees deducted from workers wages make them vulnerable to debt bondage. The trade Promotion Authority we , are considering providing to countries that have high standards like japan, canada and new zealand are being given to a country on the state departments list as required under the Trafficking Victim protection act of 2000. We had a bipartisan vote on Human Trafficking in the United States senate. It seems to me we should make it clear you cannot violate Human Trafficking and enjoy the benefits of our trade. You cleanup the act you can be part of it. I urge to ado