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Strategies & Market Trends : Joe Copia's daytrades/investments and thoughts

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To: tx81 who wrote (22183)5/19/2000 1:44:00 PM
From: Joe Copia  Read Replies (1) of 25711
 
SEVT for the archives:

News: Local

Local businessman helps expand U.S. trade with
China

By Mike Elswick

Individuals can make a difference.

Just ask Longview businessman Keith Parker who took time off this week
from running his small but growing Summit Environmental Corp. to travel to
Washington, D.C. to testify before U.S. House of Representatives and a
subcommittee considering allowing expanded trade with China.

Parker and other business leaders from across the nation met, then broke
into small groups to meet individually with members of Congress and then
appeared before the subcommittee. He got to meet with both U. S.
Representatives serving Northeast Texas, Ralph Hall, D-Rockwall, and
Max Sandlin, D-Marshall and a number of others.

"Most were very receptive to what we have to say," Parker said. When the
subcommittee vote was taken on the issue of moving forward with
expanded trade with China the measure passed by an 18-1 margin, he
said.{M6

Parker is chief executive officer of Longview-headquartered Summit
Environmental Corp. Inc. The company develops, manufactures and
distributes non-toxic, biodegradeable products used in environmental
cleanup and other applications, he said.

Parker said the company already garners more than 50 percent of its
gross sales from foreign exports.

"As a U.S. company with a unique product line and long-term vision,
we want to operate in China on the grounds of professional business
standards and ethics," he said. Small business account for 35 percent of
all trade with China while that country represents the tenth largest
export market for U.S. small business.

Parker's trip was in conjunction with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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