Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) announced today that he will be introducing a bill that would charge companies a 25 cents per call excise tax for calls routed to overseas call centers.
The healthcare sector of the U.S. economy is one of the industries that will recover from the current recession. Another sector that is in a good position to come out strong is the consumer staples industry.
With the goal of strengthening trade ties with China and expanding Chinese investment in their region, representatives of economic development agencies in the Southern United States met with representatives of Chinese provinces in Beijing, China.