A drive by President Bush to win passage of a modest trade deal with Colombia erupted Wednesday into an angry partisan confrontation between the White House and House Democrats, with both sides using trade as a surrogate for an election-year battle over jobs, national security and the sinking economy. (New York Times, Thursday)
Don't call it a free-trade agreement.
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GATT and the Alternative of Unilateral Free Trade by Pierre Lemieux