Among EIA's top priorities in 2007 and the 110th Congress are:

Opening Markets Abroad for U.S. Technology Companies

• Promoting robust, international trade dialogue and WTO-consistent policies that remove barriers to trade
• Eliminating tariffs worldwide on electronics and high-tech products
• Implementing an efficient, predictable and transparent export controls system that safeguards critical military technologies, facilitates trade with trusted partners and helps U.S. companies compete
• Strengthening intellectual property rights protections worldwide

Improving the Tax Code to Support our Entrepreneurs and U.S. Employers

• Ensuring a strong, permanent research and development (R&D) tax credit of commensurate rate for all companies; a 20% simplified credit; and an extension of the traditional credit
• Repealing the 3% withholding tax on government contracts, which will especially burden small businesses
• Making the U.S. tax code more globally-competitive
• Preserving current international tax rules

Leading the Industry on Environmental Issues

• Achieving industry consensus on an electronics recycling program, including a financing mechanism
• Harmonizing the myriad international, federal, state and local regulations governing materials content, energy efficiency and product labeling
• Supporting “green procurement” initiatives that reward responsible manufacturers
• Promoting a reliance on sound science in legislative and regulatory deliberations

Promoting Private Sector Solutions to Meet Government Needs

• Expanding the federal government’s use of streamlined, commercial-style acquisition procedures
• Preventing the imposition of protectionist industrial base policies that drive up costs to U.S. taxpayers
• Improving protection of commercially developed intellectual property acquired by the government
• Preserving the prudent use of exceptional waivers of cost and pricing data

Encouraging American Innovation & Global Competitiveness

• Increasing federal investments in basic research in physical sciences, engineering and information & communications technology (ICT)
• Offering financial incentives to strengthen the skills of science, technology and math (STEM) teachers and attract new ones
• Enacting comprehensive reform of immigration policies for skilled workers, including the H1-B visa program and other employment-based visa programs
• Promoting the adoption of ubiquitous, affordable broadband deployment and continued spectrum reform

Improving Internet Security

• Promoting Internet Security Alliance-endorsed incentives such as insurance discounts and limits on civil liability to encourage greater corporate adoption of cyber-security measures
• Achieving a balanced approach to cyber security and privacy to ensure free flow of commercial information

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