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Yes JV Repeal – Laundry List
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Yes JV Repeal – Laundry ListWill pass—dems, gop, and business supportDesmond Butler, 3-27-2012, “US Trade Upgrade May Worsen Relations With Russia”, http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S2555282.shtml?cat=10056 Republicans and Democrats are trying to tie the easing of the so-called Jackson-Vanik restrictions to a measure imposing sanctions against Russian officials linked to human rights abuses. That would infuriate Russia and would be the latest hitch in what administration officials consider a major foreign policy success: improved relations with Russia after a sharp downturn during the Bush administration. They call it the "reset." Obama administration officials are trying to keep the rights and trade measures apart. They are concerned about retaliation and do not want to aggravate relations further. Tensions have been growing over issues like missile defense and the international response to uprisings in Libya and Syria. But the U.S. still hopes for a degree of cooperation with Russia on other matters, such as stopping Iran’s nuclear program. "We want to deal with trade issues in one sphere and democracy issues and human rights in another sphere," said Michael McFaul, the U.S. ambassador to Russia. The administration first wants to deal with trade. It has powerful allies in the U.S. business community supporting the repeal of Jackson-Vanik, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which calls the repeal its top trade priority this year. Russia soon will get more opportunities for international trade when it joins the World Trade Organization. If the U.S. doesn’t repeal Jackson-Vanik, American companies could be at a competitive disadvantage. Yes repeal—domestic and international supportRIA Novosti, 3-28-2012, “Anti-Russian Amendment Now Headache for U.S.”, http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/03/anti-russian-amendment-now-headache-for-u-s/ Obama has spoken against the amendment, a tool of the Cold War that denies Russia the status of permanent normal trade relations over the restriction on emigration of Soviet Jewry in the 1970s. “I have asked Congress to repeal Jackson-Vanik to make sure that all your companies and American companies all across the country can take advantage of it,” he said in March at a business roundtable in Washington, D.C. U.S. ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, has called repeal of the amendment a top priority for the White House this year. He has repeatedly spoken against Jackson-Vanik, including in an interview with Voice of America last week. The Obama administration could attempt swaying pro-Jackson-Vanik congressmen one by one or try to get the business lobby to convince the legislators of the damages U.S. businesses faces in Russia over the amendment, Garbuzov said. But neither strategy would yield fast results, he said. Emigration from Russia is unhindered now, and the White House has waived the amendment since 1989 on an annual basis, but the Congress never removed Russia from its coverage. Strictly American Business “Canceling Jackson-Vanik would be a largely symbolic move, but the amendment serves as an invisible red light to Russian-American economic relations,” said Arseny Dabbakh, an analyst with Rye, Man & Gor Securities. The United States are Russia’s only eight-biggest trade partner, with bilateral trade standing at $31 billion in 2011, according to Russian Federal Customs Service. China tops the list with $83 billion, followed by Germany with $71 billion and the Netherlands with $68 billion. Russia needs U.S. investment, which is practically absent now, while American companies are interested in Russia, given their attempts to expand their export operations following the recession that harmed the internal market, Dabbakh said by telephone. “International business views Russia as an unsaturated market for housing, durable and consumer goods, oil and gas services, and … even infrastructure,” said Ariel Cohen, a leading expert with the Washington, D.C.-based Heritage Foundation. “Investors still pay a high price for the Kremlin’s domestic heavy-handedness,” he said by email. Public support ensures repealDick Krickus, a distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Mary Washington and has held the H.L. Oppenheimer Chair for Warfighting Strategy at the U.S. Marine Corps University. 3-28-2012, http://russian-untouchables.com/eng/2012/03/will-russia-graduate-from-the-jackson-vanik-amendment-by-krickus/ To complicate matters, democratic activists like Alexi Navalny, the blogger who helped energize recent public protest demonstrations, and Lyudmila Alexeyeva, who heads Moscow’s Human Rights Group, favors Jackson-Vanik’s repeal. They made this known–along with a number of their colleagues–in a letter to the U.S. Congress. Since then, they have supplemented their request by supporting the Magnitsky Act as well. JV = Top Of DocketJV repeal is a top priority for ObamaJackson Diehl, 5-29-2012, “Obama’s misguided wooing of an uninterested Putin,” Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-misguided-wooing-of-an-uninterested-putin/2012/05/13/gIQATs9MNU_story.html Obama’s fixation on a nuclear deal has prompted a major turnaround in his treatment of Putin, whom he shunned for three years in the hope of promoting the supposedly more “reformist” Dmitry Medvedev. Though he might have waited several days to call, Obama nevertheless congratulated Putin on an election that international observers said was neither free nor fair. He has made repeal of the 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment, which limits U.S. trade with Russia, a priority in Congress this spring. It’s being debated nowCharles Tannock, ECR Foreign Affairs Spokesman, 5-5-2012, “Putin’s Choice,” Malta Independent, http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=143898 The United States Congress is currently debating a law that would impose asset freezes and visa bans on the 60 people identified as having had some responsibility for Magnitsky’s detention and death. Many of the law’s supporters want it to replace the so-called Jackson-Vanik amendment, a Cold War-era law that restricts US trade with Russia – and that the Obama administration is pushing to repeal. Such a change would be doubly beneficial: It would both enhance trade and hold to account people responsible for egregious human-rights abuses. Jackson-Vanik is top of docketPer Rashish, Vice President for Europe and Eurasia, United States Chamber of Commerce, 3-27-2012, “House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia Hearing; "Creating Jobs: Economic Opportunities in Europe and Eurasia."; Testimony by Peter Rashish, Vice President for Europe and Eurasia, U.S. Chamber of Commerce,” lexisnexis While discussions about the scope and reach of a Transatlantic Economic and Trade Pact are at an early stage, Russia's imminent accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) is in its final lap. The Chamber congratulates the U.S. negotiating team led by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative for securing the commercially strong agreement under which Russia is finally joining the WTO. 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