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From: "Linda Muller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date sent: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 07:50:12 -05:0
Subject: [BRIGADE] Clinton sez "GO PAT GO"?
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Dear Brigade,
"To help him, the President's political advisers want to blunt the
protectionist message of anti-free traders such as right-wing
Republican
populist presidential candidate Pat Buchanan. The idea is to be seen
to be
looking after the losers from global competition..."
Yes, that the key: "to be seen" -- it's election time and the DemGops
are
playin' the old shell game again. It's up to us Brigade, to make sure
the
citizenry also "see" what these cheerleaders for the NWO are planning
behind closed doors.
GO PAT GO!!
Linda
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Australian Financial Review
6/10/99
Lamb roast as Clinton yields
to protectionist push
Washington Observed,
By Joanne Gray
Australian lamb exporters are about to get a nasty taste
of American trade policy at its worst.
It may be a time of unprecedented national prosperity in
the United States record economic expansion shows no signs
of flagging, and the unemployment rate and interest rates
are at generational lows.
Yet an unmistakably protectionist wave has enveloped the
Congress and the Clinton Administration.
The US is involved in trade skirmishes with most of its
trading partners, on issues from steel to beef to
magazines. And President Bill Clinton is expected to
announce within days that he will introduce tariffs on
Australian and New Zealand lamb.
It isn't just the trade deficit, approaching $US300
billion ($452 billion) a year, that is driving the
protectionist push. It's the backlash from globalisation,
in combination with a very weak President.
US sheep farmers have been hurt and they want to stop the
world so that they can catch up. It doesn't seem to matter
that their products are sub-standard. Clinton is
listening.
Trade has grown in importance for the US economy in the
past two decades, helped by lowering of tariff barriers
and cuts in transport and communications costs. In 1980,
total imports and exports represented 14 per cent of US
gross domestic product, but almost 20 years later that
figure has doubled.
As with many manufacturing industries, American farmers do
not have the comparative advantage any more in producing
some goods; they are the obvious losers from
globalisation. Though they represent a shrinking sector,
they are still a potent political force whose influence
crosses the political spectrum. Continued farm aid has
allowed them to exist without restructuring.
While the benefits of reducing trade barriers are widely
dispersed across the economy, in lower prices and
better-paying jobs, the losers are concentrated; and when
it comes to twisting arms, and as election day in November
2000 approaches, they are gaining strength.
The US sheep industry has failed to invest in its industry
or innovate its products since it lost wool subsidies in
1995. Instead it has apparently spent more time lobbying
the US Congress and the Administration, and briefing
lawyers to bring trade actions.
The lobbying has paid off.
The US International Trade Commission has judged that
Australian and New Zealand lamb imports have grown so fast
that they pose the threat of substantial injury to the
industry, and all six ITC members have recommended tariffs
or protection of some sort. Thirty-one senators, from
farming States such as Montana, Idaho, the Dakotas,
Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, California and Wyoming, both
Republican and Democrats, signed a letter urging the US
Trade Representative, Charlene Barshefsky, to impose harsh
tariffs on lamb imports. Some of the senators were
ostensibly free traders, but they are up for election in
2000.
If the Clinton Administration were not so weak it would
have resisted their demands. But if it does the right
thing for some mountain State senators who want to help
their local farmers, those senators might back the
Administration on getting China into the World Trade
Organisation.
And let's not forget that the campaign of Al Gore, the
front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination
which is looking decidedly anaemic. To help him, the
President's political advisers want to blunt the
protectionist message of anti-free traders such as
right-wing Republican populist presidential candidate Pat
Buchanan. The idea is to be seen to be looking after the
losers from global competition, and using every available
legal mechanism to fight trade that hurts too much.
Through all this the Democratic Party's traditional
support base, the labour movement, is still suspicious of
trade, and does not believe the evidence that trade
creates jobs.
That combination is a recipe for the wholly unjustified
tariffs that are about to be levied on Australian and New
Zealand lamb imports, even though Administration officials
say they agree import restraints are not an answer to the
industry's problems.
Australia is furious with the Clinton Administration for
taking this approach to the US sheep industry's problems,
but realistically, it has very limited leverage.
It has threatened to bring a case to the WTO.
This could embarrass the US, which is currently attacking
Europe over not allowing America's genetically modified
food and hormone-treated beef into its market.
The other pressure points are within the Cairns group in
the lead-up to the next round of multilateral trade talks
known as the Millennium round which will kick off in
Seattle in November. But even here Australia is
compromised because it wants more liberalisation, and that
is the message the US will be pushing, arguing that the
European Union is the worst offender.
And anyway, domestic support for free trade in Australia
never really existed. US tariffs on lamb imports certainly
won't help.
"It's going to make it much more difficult for us to
galvanise the community and industry to give us support
for trade liberalisation in the Millennium round," said an
Australian trade expert.
"It will be hard to take seriously the US commitment to
free trade in agriculture." Which all spells a very bleak
outlook for any major breakthroughs from the new trade
liberalisation round.
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