Shouldn't we distinguish between trade and "trade deals." A NAFTA agreement on trade could have been a few paragraphs long. Trade deals (with the US) seem to mean a capitulation on a whole lot of issues by the US's trading "partners."
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 10:42:43AM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Quite a few people on the left are rather anti-trade, and talk
> fantastically about "de-linking." Walden Bello had a piece about that
> just the other day. American unions are constantly denouncing trade
> deals and foreign competition.
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