Word: nafta
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...populist economic temptation is protectionism. Dean succumbed early in the campaign--as Governor of Vermont, he supported the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)--and he has now slid into cynical, extremist threats of tariffs against those countries that do not meet America's environmental and labor standards. When Joe Lieberman attacked this new position in last week's debate, Dean modified it again, saying he would accept international standards, which are weaker than American ones. Most of Dean's rivals seem to be wandering down the same path. (John Kerry, a career free trader, is suddenly open to renegotiating...
...That half of all American workers earn so little that the government has figured out it’s pointless trying to shake them down for their “fair share” of all the benefits the government supplies us with: the cost of negotiating and administrating NAFTA, of the CIA toppling foreign governments on behalf of their vital business interests, of a military whose budget is greater than the sum of the next six largest military budgets. Whose interests are at stake here...
...Year's gift to grocery shoppers on both sides of the Rio Grande, the U.S. and Mexico on Jan. 1 eliminated most of their remaining tariffs on agricultural products, under provisions of the NAFTA accord. But many of Mexico's farmers are trying to stem the flood of heavily subsidized U.S. produce, especially apples, pork and chicken parts. Last month thousands of Mexican protesters threatened to block border crossings, and a few burst into their country's Congress on horseback. U.S. poultry producers, concerned that Mexico will erect such nontariff barriers as additional health inspections on chicken, have worked with...
...been 16 percent above the national average, and 70 Fortune 500 companies maintain manufacturing operations in the Magnolia State. Forbes magazine recently ranked the Gulf Coast and Jackson as two of the best places to do business in America. The state will provide the central hub of the NAFTA railway corridor, and its first-rate port facilities on three commercial waterways offers economical and efficient access to national and international markets. Mississippi's economic development is based on more than simply gambling and Worldcom. The University of Mississippi may be best remembered for the battle over James Meredith's admission...
...Lott, on the other hand, is rapidly becoming a relic in his own state. As NAFTA takes effect, and the Wal-Marts and Starbucks start moving in, the Trent Lotts are being shoved to the back of the bus, sitting with plastic casino buckets and handing out Confederate trinkets to the remaining white-power holdouts who reject progress in the name of heritage...