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...facts. He came up with the idea of presenting Perot with a framed picture of Hawley and Smoot, the architects of the 1930 economy-crippling tariff. "Our principal mission," said Gore's chief of staff Jack Quinn, "was to demonstrate that the stuff Perot has been putting out about NAFTA was garbage." Gore spent most of Tuesday reading alone. Meanwhile, in an effort to set the volatile billionaire on edge, White House aides publicly called Perot "crazy." The psych-out war paid off: when Perot began arguing about the ground rules in his very first exchange with Gore, officials watching...
...MEXICAN IMPORTS FROM U.S. TARIFF NAFTA PHASEOUT...
...NAFTA thus provides an important avenue of opportunity for South American and Caribbean access to a lucrative North American market. This raises questions about the dilemma facing developing countries; how to raise standards of living while pursuing sustainable development and maintaining appropriate environmental resource exploitation. This begs the cynical, but relevant, question, of whether it is better to be exploited or not be exploited...
...furor over NAFTA, when reduced to its elemental parts, can be summed up in a simple question: do we leave international trade and by extension, the reshaping of the world as we know it, to the bureaucrats and vested in who have coopted these crucial issues...
...need rival views and a wider range of workable choices. While NAFTA does not provide the answer to this dilemma, it points us in the direction of new strategies and new ways of thinking...