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...like agriculture subsidies. It hopes to make Brazil back down by painting its defiant stance as reckless international populism. That may be the only way left to salvage the ftaa, a pact the U.S. has long coveted as a guarantee against Latin America (today the U.S.'s second-largest export market) reverting to statist protectionism. But Lula looks unlikely to blink and is "definitely prepared to walk away" from an ftaa, says Michael Connolly, an international-trade expert at the University of Miami. Brazil's $500 billion economy is South America's largest and among the world...
...INDICATORS Import This! The E.U. threatened to impose trade sanctions worth up to $4 billion on the U.S., unless it lifts export tax breaks by March. This follows an E.U. ultimatum for another $2.2 billion in sanctions if the U.S. fails to remove unlawful tariffs on steel imports...
...Bush Administration already had grievances with Iran, like its export of revolutionary ideology and support for terrorism. Although two-way contacts kept Iran from meddling in the Afghan and Iraq wars, Administration hard-liners successfully rebuffed periodic State Department proposals to reach out to the modestly reformist government of President Mohammed Khatami, under the fundamental axiom that the Bush Administration does not do business with outlaws...
...world's fastest-growing cardboard-box industries. But the region in which box manufacturing is expanding most rapidly (20% over the past five years) is in Central and South America, says industry analyst Paul Bailin. Brazil, Costa Rica and others are building box factories to export avocados, coffee and other produce...
...unconscionable that we could export $87 billion to Iraq to improve schools and healthcare while American’s are not having their fundamental rights and basic living conditions needs met. Remember, 75 million Americans right now are without health insurance, over 40 million are underinsured and millions of Americans here at home attempt to learn in overcrowded, crumbling schools...