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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 21:57:40 -0600 (CST)
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From: Drusha L. Mayhue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 6:25 PM
Subject: [toeslist] Fast Track & Trade...
1. Washington Trade Daily
Tuesday, October 31, 2000
FTAA, Fast Track Will Top President Bush�s Early Agenda
2. USA TODAY
November 1, 2000
Candidates keep silent on trade Bush, Gore seem to want same things, but
the issues are complex, unpopular
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1)
Washington Trade Daily
Tuesday, October 31, 2000
FTAA, Fast Track Will Top President Bush�s Early Agenda
Completion of a hemispheric-wide free trade agreement will be a top
priority for Gov. George W. Bush if he becomes President S unlike the
Clinton/Gore Administration that has allowed the negotiations to �slow to a
crawl,� an advisor to the Republican Presidential candidate said yesterday
(WTD, 10/30/00).
A Bush Administration would have its Latin America policy firmly in place
within its first hundred days in office � in time for the Summit of the
Americas meeting of the hemisphere� s leaders in Quebec City next April,
according to Mr. Bush� s chief trade advisor Robert Zoellick.
This would include being �well on the road� toward winning Presidential
fast track trade negotiating authority from Congress. Unless the other Free
Trade Area of the Americas members know fast track is on its way, the
United States will be effectively shut out of the next hemispheric summit,
Mr. Zoellick told a forum sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations.
The Republican and Labor and the Environment
Gov. Bush would be better able to gain fast track negotiating authority
from Congress than his rival Vice President Gore because the governor will
address the sticky questions of labor and environmental issues in a way
that does not alienate either political party, Mr. Zoellick said. Candidate
Bush has made clear that he favors addressing labor and environmental
concerns as long as the issues do not become forms of protectionism. It was
the Administration of Gov. Bush� s father that originated the labor and
environment side agreements in the North American Free Trade Agreement,
Mr. Zoellick noted.
Gov. Bush is more likely to win Congressional consensus for fast track
negotiating authority because Republicans will be more �comfortable� if it
is a Republican President linking labor and environmental issues to trade.
Mr. Bush views the FTAA as critical to forging stronger strategic as well
as economic ties with Latin America. The Clinton Administration has paid
only sporadic attention to this hemisphere, especially in the last few
years � engaging in the region only when crises have forced their
attention, the Bush advisor said. The United States must �rebuild its
credibility� with Latin America and the best way to do that is by restoring
the momentum for free trade. That will send a clear signal to all of Latin
America that the United States is ready to make a long-term commitment to
the hemisphere, he said.
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2)
USA TODAY
November 1, 2000
Candidates keep silent on trade Bush, Gore seem to want same things, but
the issues are complex, unpopular
James Cox
With Al Gore and George W. Bush mainly silent on the issue of trade,
Campaign 2000 is a race in search of a giant sucking sound.
Take the trade deficit, on pace to hit $ 353 million and top last year's
record by 33%.
"Neither side has said anything about it," says Ernest Preeg, senior fellow
at the Manufacturers Alliance, which does trade analysis. "Once you say
it's a problem, you have to say what you'll do with it."
With few exceptions, the candidates say they want the same things: expanded
trade, a new round of global trade talks, strong enforcement of U.S.
anti-dumping laws and a freer hand from Congress to negotiate trade pacts.
Even Gore adviser Laura Tyson, once a top economic aide to President
Clinton, notes some similarities between the vice president and the Texas
governor on trade.
Bush policy director Josh Bolten says the free-trade rhetoric coming out of
the two campaigns is a coincidence. "There's a very important difference:
We mean it."
Where do the two men stand on trade issues?
Labor and environment. Gore vows to build "core standards" for both into
new trade agreements. Bush pledges to keep labor and the environment out of
trade talks.
Unions say standards are vital to protect worker rights and natural
resources -- and to keep foreign firms from lowering costs by exploiting
labor and cutting environmental corners.
Poor countries insist they won't sign anything that holds them to U.S.
standards and robs them of the competitive advantage they get from cheaper
labor.
"The rest of the world is going to say, 'No way, Jose,' as far as any new
trade agreements," says Dean Kleckner, a Des Moines farmer who heads a
farm-policy trade group.
A strong U.S. president can get wary countries to go along, argues Dan
Seligman, trade director at the Sierra Club. "If the U.S. steps up and
tells our trading partners it's this way or no way, we can make that
happen."
Fast track. Both candidates say they will push for the authority to
negotiate trade agreements that they can submit to Congress for simple
"yes" or "no" votes without amendments.
Clinton is the first president in recent memory without so-called
fast-track powers. Without fast track, Congress can pick apart any new
trade pact -- a prospect other countries find horrifying.
Either candidate's ability to get broad new negotiating authority depends
on the makeup of Congress. If Democrats retake the House and trade-wary
Richard Gephardt becomes speaker, he could make it rough on either one.
A new round of global trade talks. It will take a big push by the next
president to break the deadlock at the World Trade Organization over talks
aimed at liberalizing trade in farm products and services, such as banking
and telecom.
Key trading partners. Some Bush advisers say he'd be less pushy with Tokyo,
stressing the U.S.-Japan strategic alliance over festering issues of access
to Japanese markets.
Both candidates backed normalized trade with China, but Gore was bashed for
ducking the battle in Congress. He told labor leaders he might renegotiate
parts of the market-opening agreement China reached with the United States
last year, then backed away from those remarks when they caused a furor.
Bush says the administration has mistakenly viewed Beijing as a strategic
partner. China should be seen "not as our partner, but as our competitor."
Bush vows to push to open the North American Free Trade Agreement with
Canada and Mexico to all of Latin America.
Neither candidate has much to say about the 15-nation European Union, which
is battling the U.S. over tax breaks for exporters, steel, beef, bananas
and other issues. "It's as though Europe didn't exist," says Jacqueline
Grapin, president of think tank The European Institute.
Trade isn't sexy -- or popular -- with the public, says David Aaron, who
served as undersecretary of Commerce until earlier this year.
"Both candidates would have a difficult time fashioning a coherent trade
policy," he says. "Given the politics, you don't expect them to spend a lot
of time talking about it."
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