James H. Keyes
CHAIRMAN & CEO, Johnson Controls, Inc.
Technology: The Driver of Manufacturing Productivity and Growth
James H. Keyes, the chief executive officer of Milwaukee-based Johnson Controls
Inc. and chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers voiced concern
to the Chief Executives' Club of Boston luncheon audience on June 7 over the
fact that the Senate is sitting on House-approved legislation for expanded trade
with China, which if delayed could affect the ability of US manufacturers to
compete. "The Senate has turned out to be much more difficult of an obstacle
than anyone had expected with new threats of a filibuster and an apparent desire
on the part of the Republican leadership to put off a vote on permanent normal
trade relations until after all 13 appropriations bills have been passed into
law," he said. "If we don't extend China the same permanenet normal
trade relations treatment that every other World Trade Organization member is
going to give them, we won't get the full benefits and will lose the market
to our competitors," Keyes concluded.
Story ran in the Boston Globe on June 8, 2000.