The Business Roundtable; American Chamber of Commerce, Hong Kong; Caterpillar China
H. Richard Kahler
H. Richard Kahler is President of Caterpillar, a $20 billioncompany whose overseas sales account for 50 percent of its revenue.Caterpillar sells and operates in most countries of the worldand has been active in China since the early 1970s. Kahler alsorepresents The Business Roundtable, an association of chief executiveofficers of leading corporations with a combined workforce ofmore than 10 million employees in the United States, and the AmericanChamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, one of the largest Chambersof Commerce in the world, with some 2,500 members. The followingstatement is from testimony before the Senate Commerce, Scienceand Transportation Committee during an April…
