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 monitoring and enforcing Americans' trade rights around the world. Thereafter, on February 28, 2012, the President issued an Executive Order that established ITEC. As the federal government's primary coordinator of international and domestic trade enforcement, ITEC helps to ensure that America's trading partners abide by their obligations, including by maintaining open markets on a non-discriminatory basis, and by following rules-based procedures in a transparent way. ITEC leverages and mobilizes the federal government's resources and expertise to address unfair foreign trade practices and barriers. In particular, ITEC uses expertise from across the federal government to assist in asserting U.S. trade rights implicated by various international trade agreements and serves as the primary forum within the federal government for agencies to coordinate enforcement of obligations under international trade agreements, including the identification of unfair trade practices and barriers that involve IPR. 29