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Testimony in Support of House Bill 272 - Ohio Chemistry Technology Council (June 9, 2021)

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Testimony in support of House Bill 272 to the House Commerce and Labor Committee, dated June 9, 2021, from Andy Swaim, Director of Government and External Affairs for the Ohio Chemistry Technology Council (OCTC). The testimony states that Ohio is the third largest chemical manufacturing state in the United States and that the industry employs nearly 40,000 people. It says the bill would help prevent counterfeiters and sellers of stolen goods from using online marketplaces. It quotes a U.S. Department of Homeland Security report, Combatting Trafficking in Counterfeit and Pirated Goods (2020), on best practices including enhanced vetting of third-party sellers, and urges passage of the bill.

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     Board of Directors
                                                              June 9, 2021
    Chair – Rich Rogers
          Covestro                          Ohio Chemistry Technology Council Testimony
 Vice Chair – Seth Tomasch
Gabriel Performance Products
                                                    In Support of House Bill 272
 Treasurer – Karleen James
       Dover Chemical          Chairman Stein, Vice Chair Johnson, Ranking Member Lepore-Hagan and
 Past Chair – David Hurder     members of the House Commerce and Labor Committee, my name is
          McGean
                               Andy Swaim. I am the Director of Government and External Affairs for the
       John Ambrozy            Ohio Chemistry Technology Council (OCTC). Thank you for the opportunity
      Kraton Polymers          to testify in support of House Bill 272 (HB 272).
       Chuck Almroth
 Jones-Hamilton Company
       Ken Armstrong           OCTC is the leading advocate for Ohio’s chemistry industry. Ohio is the
     RPM International         third largest chemical manufacturing state in the United States. The
         James Bull            chemistry industry in Ohio employs nearly 40,000 people, pays an average
 Capital Resin Corporation
                               wage of over $85,000, and ships more than $5.6 billion in products
        Joseph Bush
           Solvay              worldwide every year.
     Fernando Carvalho
          Ashland              The OCTC represents manufacturers that produce products ranging from
         Mike Groh
   Emery Oleochemicals
                               high-performance paint to pesticides to lifesaving medical equipment.
      Steel Hutchinson         Many of our products are developed through painstaking research and
      GFS Chemicals            development processes that hone products to be the safest, most
      Daniel Isaacson          effective product on the market. When our products are mishandled or
  The Lubrizol Corporation
      Richard Jackson          counterfeited, there can be significant consequences to the health and
     ASHTA Chemicals           safety of consumers as well as the environment.
       Joseph Bianco
       INEOS Nitriles
                               House Bill 272 would help to prevent counterfeiters and those persons
    Jonathan Kammerer
     Americas Styrenics        trying to sell stolen goods from using online marketplaces to easily traffic
     Matthew O’Connor          those items. The OCTC understands that the addition of verification and
         Zaclon LLC            transparency measures will provide a certain amount of operational
         Rob Paxton
Shepherd Chemical Company
                               burden to those online marketplaces. However, as noted in a recent
       MJ Rea-Jordan           report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)i:
           Univar
        Heather Rutz                 While the U.S. brick-and-mortar retail store economy has a well-
    Husky Lima Refinery              developed regime for licensing, monitoring, and otherwise
         Chris Shaul
           DuPont
                                     ensuring the protections of intellectual property rights (IPR), a
         Terry Snell                 comparable regime is largely non-existent for international e-
            BASF                     commerce sellers.
       Hadley Stamm
            PPG
         Tom Steib
   The Elco Corporation
Among the best practices listed in the report for combatting this criminal activity are significantly
enhanced vetting of third-party sellers, rapid notice and takedown procedures, and pre-sale
identification of third-party sellers.

HB 272 would implement all of these precautions to help ensure that the products of the chemistry
industry are being handled responsibly and consumers are getting legitimate products. OCTC urges
passage of House Bill 272 as a reasonable approach to tackling this growing issue. Thank you for the
opportunity to testify, and I am happy to answer any questions you may have.


i (Combatting Trafficking in Counterfeit and Pirated Goods, US Department of Homeland Security, Office of Strategy,

Policy & Plans, 2020)

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