Listen Up!(promoting trade agreements to the American public)

The International Economy | May 1, 2001| | Copyright

A guide for selling trade agreements to a wary American public.

President George W. Bush has an trade agenda. As the States economy slows, he hopes trade liberalization will provide new or larger markets for U.S. producers. Thus, he traveled to Quebec in April to jumpstart the moribund Free Trade Agreement of the Americas. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick has worked hard to convince other nations to agree to a new round of multilateral trade talks, which are scheduled to commence in Doha, Qatar, in November.

This agenda could be blocked in many ...

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