Free Trade

Kirk Announces Trade Enforcement Case Against Guatemala 4  


For the first time in history, the U.S. is preparing to file a labor case against a trade agreement partner, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced Friday.

WTO to U.S.: Eat Chinese Chicken 2  


So… this is the deal. China gets to manipulate currency, charge VAT tariffs against our imports, freeze out U.S. vendors from gov’t procurement, steel our technology, etc. But we have to eat their questionably raised chicken.

Korea FTA: Some Dems fight it +  


Korean FTA pretends we are free trading with free trading nations. The pretension is false. Utterly false. And it hurts our country.

Illegal Chinese Paper Subsidies Hurting U.S. 6  


Despite its lack of a competitive advantage in paper production and natural resources to make paper, China has surpassed the U.S. to become the world’s leader in that department in just under a decade, according to a an EPI report released earlier this month.

Letters to the editor
07/30/2010

For the first time in history, the U.S. is preparing to file a labor case against a trade agreement partner, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced Friday.

07/30/2010

Not only will roughly 32 million new Americans be brought onto insurance rosters, and be given prescription drugs; the prices of those drugs will be allowed to ascend without safeguards.

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07/30/2010

Every aspect of catfish raising involves water polluted not just by industrial waste, but by human waste, garbage dumps, people bathing in the water and boats refueling in the river.