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“Regulations are an impediment to everything we are trying to do!” Small Businesses in…

Office of Advocacy Sep 20, 2018

By Claudia Rodgers, Senior Counsel The call for help from America’s small businesses continued this month in Princeton, New Jersey, Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Poughkeepsie, New York, where the Office of Advocacy held Regional Regulatory…

Region 3 Advocate Convenes a Meeting of the Minds

Office of Advocacy Mar 6, 2018

By Elmo Rinaldi, Region 3 Advocate In December, I had the opportunity to hold my first roundtable in Washington, D.C. Jerry Pierce, President of The Interamerica Group, offered his office and conference room for the meeting. Arriving…

FDA – “Wrapped Too Tight”

Office of Advocacy Jan 2, 2018

By Elmo Rinaldi, Region 3 Advocate It’s noteworthy to point out that most companies in the cigar industry qualify as a small business. With FDA’s greater familiarity with the large cigarette industry, they have had a tendency to…