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Ms. Schweitzer will deliver a briefing on the status of the pending U.S. Free Trade Agreements with Colombia, Panama, and Korea and will illustrate how these agreements will drive exports and benefit Louisiana companies. About Leslie M. Schweitzer As Senior Trade Advisor for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the largest business organization in the world with over 3 million members, Leslie Schweitzer created the TradeRoots Initiative in 1999, the only sustained national grassroots international trade education program in the country. Ms. Schweitzer continues to direct the program, designed to raise the public awareness of international trade, particularly to small and medium-sized companies. TradeRoots has been instrumental in gaining grassroots support for China PNTR, Trade Promotion Authority, and free trade agreements with Chile, Singapore, Australia, Morocco and Bahrain, and led the charge for grassroots support of the free trade agreement with Dominican Republic, Honduras, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Nicaragua (CAFTA), and most recently Peru. TradeRoots continues with advocacy programs for pending agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea. Ms. Schweitzer has owned her own businesses involved in international trade for more than 30 years. She was one of the first American women to do business in China and pioneered U.S.-China trade beginning in 1977 as a co-founder of Noble Trading Company, which assisted U.S.-based companies with product sales to China, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, India, South America and the Caribbean. In 1987, Ms. Schweitzer founded a full-service offshore manufacturing and marketing company, Schweitzer & Associates, specializing in developing consumer product industries in third world and developing countries. She owned and operated factories in the Caribbean that produced labor intensive apparel for U.S. and foreign retail stores, manufacturers, and catalog companies. At one point the company employed over 700 people. Schweitzer has also been involved in international business ventures in the Soviet Union and Finland.
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