NATIONAL RENDERERS ASSOCIATION

Trade (domestic/foreign)

Monitor developments both legislative and regulatory related to Free Trade Agreements, Trans Pacific Partnership and EU-U.S, Fast Track Authority, enhanced trade with Cuba. Monitoring of USDAs designation of U.S. trading partners as minimal risk regions relating to BSE status. Support for U.S. efforts to secure a new World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement on global trade

TargetedSENATE · HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES · White House Office · U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) · Agriculture, Dept of (USDA) · Energy, Dept of · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Legislation relating to research and programs fostering development of alternative feedstocks for biofuel manufacture, and legislation relating to the extension of various tax incentives for the creation of bio-based fuels. Legislation to extend various federal tax incentives for the production of alternative fuels, including biodiesel from animal fats and rendered products, and the blending of alternative fuels with diesel.Those titles relating to the extension of animal-based biodiesel tax incentives, as well as the alternative fuel mixture tax credit. and pending legislation in the Senate.

TargetedSENATE · HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES · White House Office · U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) · Agriculture, Dept of (USDA) · Energy, Dept of · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Food & Drug Administration (FDA)