Business Roundtable President John J. Castellani Responds to Free Trade Meeting at White House

President George W. Bush met with John Castellani, President of Business Roundtable along with 50 other business leaders today to seek help in lobbying Congress to pass pending free trade agreements.

“The U.S. has negotiated 14 free trade agreements while the rest of the world has negotiated 300. Other countries know that in order to compete and win in the global marketplace, access to foreign markets is a must.  Business leaders will continue to help the American worker and lawmakers understand that these trade agreements will level the playing field and bring benefits to U.S. companies, workers, farmers and consumers,” said John J. Castellani, President of the Business Roundtable.

To schedule an interview with John Castellani or for further information, please contact Joe Crea at 202-496-3288 or jcrea@businessroundtable.org.

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Business Roundtable (www.businessroundtable.org) is an association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies with $4.5 trillion in annual revenues and more than 10 million employees. Member companies comprise nearly a third of the total value of the U.S. stock markets and represent over 40 percent of all corporate income taxes paid to the federal government. Collectively, they returned $112 billion in dividends to shareholders and the economy in 2005.

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