>Doug, while you have a point here -- Certainly JfJ was a landmark
>success -- the
>real threat of NAFTA et al is not lowering of tariffs (i.e., conventional free
>trade) but the supranational bodies that can take actions overriding national
>law. I suspect that these powers represent the real threat of trade
>agreements.
Well, "we" have lost pretty much every regulatory battle in every corner of the world over the last 20 years. Now at least we can blame the WTO!
Doug