Free Trade
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 00:00
The acknowledgment adds new hurdles to the New York senator's bid to woo Democratic voters in Pennsylvania and elsewhere who believe free trade agreements have eliminated thousands of U.S. jobs
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 00:00
The U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement provides Congress with a unique opportunity to help American workers and advance U.S. strategic interests
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 00:00
In the first two years after Nafta was signed, Mr. Martinez said, thousands of small and midsize Mexican companies found they could not compete with the multinational companies that suddenly flooded the Mexican markets
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 00:00
Turns out Venezuela is not so psyched about being the GOP’s whipping boy for a trade pact with another country
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 00:00
Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos discusses how ratification of the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (TPA) will create jobs and further strengthen economic growth and security
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 00:00
Obama, nimble at the art of enveloping the courtship of interest groups in clouds of high-mindedness, says Colombia has not done enough to protect its trade unionists
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 00:00
When we send up a trade agreement, we never know, quite frankly, how it's going to play. No Congress has ever defeated a trade agreement -- a free trade agreement -- in the history of writing or negotiating these free trade agreements
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 00:00
The United States is the largest manufacturer and exporter in the world and new markets are essential to our workers, 42 percent of whom are employed by companies that are involved with trade.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 00:00
Democrats contend that Colombia has not done enough to halt violence, protect labor activists and demobilize paramilitary organizations. The president disagreed, saying Colombia has addressed the issues
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 00:00
The US Congress should vote against the US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) because of Colombia’s continuing failure to effectively address anti-union violence and impunity, Human Rights Watch said