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...That's probably better for you. I guess I just have one more question, but it's kind of a cheesy one. Do you think there are three words that describe your sound, if you really had to narrow it down...
There is a considerable amount of confusion and posturing in this debate, but there are also some deeper reasons for the confusion. The WTO is in fact a mix of high principles of importance to a stable world, combined with narrow interests masquerading as high principles, and leavened with a host of unsolved conundrums about the ways we should cooperate in a globalized society and economy...
...predecessor before 1994, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)), have indeed been helpful in expanding trade on a broad front. But trade policy has its low side as well--a battle of narrow interests posturing as national or even international interests. The AFL-CIO is keen to keep out manufactured goods that developing countries can successfully export to the U.S., whether textiles from very low-wage countries or steel from Korea, Brazil and Russia. It marches in Seattle under the hypocritical (or to be more generous, simply erroneous) claim that it represents the interests of the world...
...beholder. We have a real and continuing puzzle as to where to draw the line on what individual countries can choose to do, and what they should agree to set according to a single international standard. These issues need further debate, but we should take care not to let narrow interests manipulate or undermine open trade...
...Environmental and health protections Environmentalists and public advocacy groups strongly reject the WTO's right to overrule measures intended to protect the environment or public health, arguing that the organization puts the narrow interests of business over those of society in general. But countries disadvantaged by such measures often charge that they're invoked as a fig leaf for old-fashioned protectionism. For example, Washington has dismissed European health concerns over the import of hormone treated beef as an attempt to protect less competitive European farmers...