WASHINGTON, DC : Transcript of remarks by Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt and acting Agriculture secretary Chuck Conner at the Import Safety Working Group public meeting - (USDA News Release)
October 1, 2007 – 6:53 pmWashington, D.C. — Sec. Leavitt: This year more than $2 trillion worth of products are going to be imported into the United States. The product comes from 25,000 importers through 300 ports and land border crossings and postal facilities and other ports of entry, and experts are projecting that the amount will triple by 2015. In order to adapt to a rapidly growing and changing global economy, both the private and the public sector need to continually improve and change with it. On the 18th of July of this year the President asked me to chair an Interagency Working Group on Import Safety with the charge of conducting an across-the-board review of products that are imported into this country from around the world. The working group includes officials from 12 federal agencies, all of which are represented here today. My department, the Department of Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, […]
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