Industry committee  We're in support of the trade agreement as it's presented in its various aspects. We manufacture all of our products from steel and aluminum, so all of the issues we have with the tariffs on them really hurt us over the last couple of years. The other issue is with exporting our

Industry committee  This gives us a legal basis to do what we would need to do for reverse-engineering, but it's the most expensive path. For a single platform it costs between $800,000 and $1 million to develop a full technical system that duplicates everything that the tractor systems already do,

Industry committee  It wasn't, and it should be.

Industry committee  The primary difference is that the U.S. copyright legislation has exemptions to prohibition, to circumvention. Circumvention of people's intellectual property or their copyrighted material is illegal generally, but when an exemption is provided for the purpose of interoperability

Industry committee  Thank you. I prepared for 10 minutes, but I will do it in five. I'm Scott Smith. I have the privilege of representing the 160 employees of Honey Bee Manufacturing. I have with me Jamie Pegg, our general manager. We want to thank you for this opportunity to discuss these matters