Florida Senate - 2015                            (NP)    SR 1640
       
       
        
       By Senator Detert
       
       
       
       
       
       28-03959-15                                           20151640__
    1                          Senate Resolution                        
    2         A resolution expressing support for the successful
    3         negotiation of a mutually beneficial Transatlantic
    4         Trade and Investment Partnership between the United
    5         States and the European Union.
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    7         WHEREAS, the transatlantic economy is the largest in the
    8  world, encompassing nearly 50 percent of global gross domestic
    9  product (GDP), and the United States-European Union High Level
   10  Working Group on Jobs and Growth has called for an agreement to
   11  remove constraints to economic growth between these two
   12  entities, resulting in discussion of the Transatlantic Trade and
   13  Investment Partnership (TTIP), and
   14         WHEREAS, growth of emerging marketplaces across the globe
   15  continues to lessen the share of global GDP attributable to the
   16  transatlantic economy, and
   17         WHEREAS, expansion of global trade, especially with member
   18  nations of the European Union, is of vital importance to the
   19  growth of the economy of the United States, small business
   20  participation in the international marketplace, and job
   21  creation, and
   22         WHEREAS, this state would benefit greatly from the
   23  ratification of a comprehensive TTIP, which would create
   24  employment opportunities for Floridians as a direct result of
   25  loosening current burdens on trade and free markets, and
   26         WHEREAS, the successful implementation of the TTIP will
   27  increase exports to the European Union from this state, and
   28         WHEREAS, the Constitution of the United States of America
   29  grants the Congress of the United States sole authority in
   30  regulating commerce with foreign nations, and
   31         WHEREAS, the negotiation of a successful Transatlantic
   32  Trade and Investment Partnership will necessarily be a
   33  bipartisan cooperation between state, federal, and foreign
   34  governments, NOW, THEREFORE,
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   36  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:
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   38         That successful negotiation in a timely manner by the
   39  Executive Branch of a comprehensive and mutually beneficial
   40  Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the
   41  United States and the European Union and its ratification by the
   42  United States Congress is supported.
   43         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a copy of this resolution be
   44  transmitted to the Florida congressional delegation with a
   45  request that the United States Congress grant trade promotion
   46  authority to the Executive Branch.