karen gerwitz
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Colorado business group urges Trump to deal fairly and wisely on NAFTA
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A group of Colorado business leaders are urging President Trump to ease up on tariffs and extend exemptions to U.S partners in the North American Free Trade Agreement. “Our markets need to be made secure, and our North American allies are a part of the solution,” Colorado Business Leaders for NAFTA said in the statement…
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Colorado’s ag industry aims to enter a new market: Cuba
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Cuba is open for business and wants to do business with Colorado. That’s the takeaway Colorado officials and business leaders came home with late last week after a four-day trip to the island nation. The group included Commissioner of Agriculture Don Brown; Karen Gerwitz, CEO and president of World Trade Center Denver; and representatives from…
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Import tax gets no way, wait-and-see responses from CO delegation
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President Donald Trump’s proposed 20 percent import tax on Mexican products to pay for an immigration control wall along the border between the U.S. and Mexico would have a big impact on Colorado’s rural economy, according to economists. Such a tax would increase the price of Mexican goods for U.S. consumers, who would ultimately pay…