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President-Elect Donald Trump's last political hurdle was successfully traversed in a joint congressional session on January 6th.

President-Elect Donald Trump's last political hurdle occurs this week when the electoral votes are officially tabulated in a joint session of the US House and Senate on January 6th.

The eBay Government Relations team wishes you a very Happy New Year.

2016 was a busy year for eBay’s Kristen Foster, eBay Director of Government Relations for Australia, New Zealand, Japan & Southeast Asia.

Despite organized protests and an opposition move by several Democratic electors naming themselves after Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Essay #68, Donald Trump received 99.3% of the electoral votes he won in the states.

Over the past year the eBay Public Policy Lab released five reports that examined the trade and growth patterns of enterprises using the eBay Marketplace.

The December 2016 issue of Technology Innovation and Management Review, themed “Smart Cities and Regions”, included an article authored by Hanne Melin, eBay Director of Global Public Policy, Samuel Laurinkari, eBay Senior Manager Government Relations, and Taina Tukiainen, Cabinet Member of the President of the EU Committee of the Regions.

eBay’s President and CEO Devin Wenig recently met Australia’s Prime Minster the Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP and his Cabinet Ministers in Canberra to discuss the government’s proposals to introduce a 10% domestic goods and services tax on all online imports into Australia and potentially force electronic distribution platforms to collect.

The political left continues to grasp at straws in order to find a way to de-rail Donald Trump's election.

2016 was yet another active year on the Internet Sales Tax front in the US.