This legislation establishes a cooperative forum between our countries to facilitate highlevel discussions of bilateral and multilateral trade and investment policy Initiatives. The bill extends GSP benefits to those countries eligible to participate in the bill for the next 10 years. On top of that. quotas on textile and apparel projects from Kenya and Mauritius are eliminated after these countries adopt a visa system to guard against transshipment. There is very strong language in this bill to protect the American economy against transshipment. These provisions will not. as has been argued on the floor of this House. lead to a surge of apparel and textile imports into the U.S. that damages American workers.