mr. reif described there's so much more in these agreements because the focus on service barriers as well as technical barriers to trade, regulatory barriers and increasing transparency, intellectual property and electronic commerce, government procurement. all of these the benefits the state of florida would enjoy it as role of the rest of the country. because of florida's location and the location of colombia and panama being so close and those countries being hubs for the rest of latin america and florida being a hub for the rest of the united states there is tremendous synergies that will exist as well. >> i yield back. >> thank you. >> mr. doggett is recognized. >> the question is whether to approve a free trade agreement with the -- that is what the fact are. i believe there are people of good faith working hard and colombia to remedy these problems but last year 49 trade union members were murdered in colombia and this year the numbers up to 20. the report that came out from human-right

the house was condemned and mr. reif had to move out. he's been living with a neighbor ever since but wants to move home. his insurance wants to pay to fix it because he doesn't have specific earthquake insurance. >> 91 years. when something happens,. >> each year they pick a different charity for the money to go to, but this year the money is going toward rebuilding mr. reif's home. >> this is when family and friends and community have to be a good neighbor. he always wants to do for us p he is looking to help people in the area. so he is part of the fabric. a major part of the fabric. that's what we want to do. we want to help him. >> the golf tournament is monday, october 3, and they are hoping to raise $10,000 for mr. reif. this will hopefully fix the structural damage so he can move back in. mr. reif is touched by the community support. >> it is unbelievable. it has always been friendly. never had any problems with neighbors or anything like that. >> and with the community's help, one day he will finally be able to come home again.

mr. reif, let me ask you this. this is what i had major problems with, this legislation. the rules of origin provisions in this agreement, not in past agreements, not in futuristic agreements, this agreement, these provisions would allow products made with a 65% foreign content, including regional countries like china, malaysia, and vietnam, they would qualify for duty-free access to the american market, is that correct or incorrect? >> mr. pascrell, that's not, that's not a correct description of the rule of origin. world of origin provides that the automobile, we're talking about an automobile, it varies from product to product, will be constructed, built in united states or in south korea and it needs to have a certain round of regional local content. >> in the nafta agreement even we had 50/50 formula i believe, was it not? in terms of transporting of these good? >> i believe that may be corre correct. >> isn't this the 65-35? >> right. the nafta agreement reflected -- >> that's what i ask

really want to establish more because i'm sure will have trade agreements for the future, so to mr. reifduring the mockup i and others offered anonymity requires the president to annually report on the implementation and enforcement of the colombia later action plan. i understand that this type of reporting requirements consistent with reporting requirements both in cafta and nafta, is that true? >> thank you, senator menendez. there are general reporting requirement as you know you as they are reports annually on all of our trade agreement programs in march of every year and we will do so, we do so with respective nafta, cafta. will do so with respect to these three agreements as well. spent my question was whether not specific reporting requirements in cafta and nafta that do with labor rights as part of the reporting obligation to? >> there was a specific reporting requirement in cafta that pertained to a very special part of that, that was a white paper that was created by the ilo. the reporting requirement contained to that. >> what is the administration position on providing an ann

let me ask mr. reif, since president santos took over, was elected in colombia -- he is the president, right? the last 38 cases of trade union murders -- do you know how many convictions we have had since he has been the president? now that we turned to a new chapter, how many convictions? >> i know that every single one of them is being investigated, and if i might say -- just how many. the answer was one. what -- where is your progress that you talked of? this is not delayed. this is not delayed over five years. this is discussion, a bipartisan way to try to get the best deals that we can get. i respect both sides of the aisle who participated in these things to bring us to where we are, but that does not mean we got to where we want to be. i am looking at the u.s. international trade commission, which is basically are the commerce department, although it is independent and impartial. would you agree with that? >> it is an independent agency -- >> we do consider them impartial? >> yes, sir. >> let me -