[lbo-talk] EU Flexes Trade Muscles

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Wed Nov 5 20:06:59 PST 2003


----- Original Message ----- From: <dredmond at efn.org>


> Today trade flows, tomorrow capital flows:
>
> "The EU has already drawn up a hit list of US imports worth about $2.2bn
a year
> which will targeted with retaliatory sanctions.
> The list, which includes Harley Davidson motorcycles, citrus fruit, and
textile
> products, is said to have been calculated so as to hit hardest regions
which
> support President Bush's Republican party."
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3243423.stm
>
> -- DRR

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Bad move. Period. The WTO needs to be morphed into something else for cosmopolitan reasons, not smashed for xenophobic ones.

Ian



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