Agenda for Federal Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce
Meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia
June 21 & 22, 1999
June 21, 1999 -- Location: East Lounge, Williamsburg Inn
4:00 p.m. -- Organizational Meeting
- Election of Chairman
- Opening Remarks of Chairman
- Appointment of Executive Director
- Administrative Matters (such as voting on charter, operating rules,
future meeting dates and locations, proposed budget, and funding
program)
5:00 p.m. -- Press Availability (Commission Members)
June 22, 1999 -- Location: College of William & Mary, University
Centers
8:00 a.m. -- Media Registration
8:30 -- Opening Remarks
Charge to the Commission
8:45 -- Opening of Commission Business,
Honorable James S. Gilmore, III, Chairman and Governor of the Commonwealth
of Virginia
9:05 -- Key Note Speech (Tentative)
9:30 -- Opening
Remarks by Commission Members
10:45 -- Morning Break
11:00 --
Presentations on the Implications of Electronic Commerce for U.S. Domestic
Economy and U.S. International Competitiveness
- Andrew Pincus, General Counsel, U.S. Department of Commerce,
Presentation of "The Digital Economy"
- Peter Merrill, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Washington, D.C.
12:30 p.m. -- Lunch (available for a fee in the food court
of the University Centers building)
1:30 -- Press Conference (York
Room) (A media filing center with analog lines for filing stories will be
set up in the student lounge of the University Centers building)
1:45
-- Presentations on the Implications of Electronic Commerce for Global
Economy, International Tax and Tariff Issues
- Joseph Guttentag, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Tax
Affairs, U.S. Treasury Dep't.
- Robert Novick, General Counsel, Office of the U.S. Trade
Representative Sales & Use Taxes in United States
- William Fox, Ph.D., University of Tennessee (Sales Taxes as Revenue
Sources and Cyber Economy)
- Austin Goolsbee, Ph.D., University of Chicago School of Business
(The Impact of Taxation on Internet Sales)
- Walter Hellerstein, J.D., University of Georgia School of Law (The
Law of Sales Taxes in a Cyber Economy) Policy Perspectives on Taxation
in a Cyber Economy
- Charles McLure, Hoover Institution
- Honorable Orson Swindle, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
5:15 - 5:30 -- Closing Remarks by Honorable James S.
Gilmore, III, Chairman & Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia
To register for media credentials, please fill out the attached form and
fax it to Dan Kreske in Governor Gilmore's office at (804) 692-0121 or log
on to the Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce website at http://www.ecommercecommission.org/
and go to the Press Room.
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