Pompeo also voted for several free-trade agreements while in congress, including for the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, the Panama Free Trade Agreement, and the South Korea Free Trade Agreement.
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With apologies to fictional Wall Street financier Gordon Gekko: Free trade is good; free trade is right; free trade works.
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And, he said free trade, I say free trade great.
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I am a believer in free trade, fair free trade.
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The logic of interstate free trade and international free trade are the same.
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In a fiery anti-free-trade speech last month, Mr. Trump said he would "rip up" existing free trade agreements, including the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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We're going to have free trade, more free trade than we have right now.
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AF: Japan recently signed a free trade deal; a Japan EU free trade deal.
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Possibilities could include free trade agreements with a single country, a regional economic community, or a combination of the two; a mega-regional free trade agreement building on existing African free trade agreements; or allowing African countries to join existing or renegotiated free trade agreements.
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When it comes to capitalism, we talk about free trade, we don&apost have free trade.
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Quick: And both the Democrats and the Republicans are moving away from the idea of free trade, depending on how – the free trade that we've seen as free trade to this point.
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" Free trade: "The other countries that talk about free trade are really very protectionist — Europe, China, Japan.
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It's much more efficient if we can have open free trade, understandably fair trade, but free trade.
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Strickland's campaign has knocked Portman for supporting free trade agreements including the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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BECKY QUICK: And both the Democrats and the Republicans are moving away from the idea of free trade, depending on how – the free trade that we've seen as free trade to this point.
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The approach of Economists for Free Trade, which I chair, does not rely solely on unilateral free trade.
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The EU signed a free-trade agreement with Japan, constituting the largest free-trade bloc in the world.
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The Farmers for Free Trade campaign is focused on farmers, ranchers and agriculture business owners for free trade.
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Saying no to free trade On free trade, Trump has been saying things that make a conservative's head spin.
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Over the past year, it has signed free trade deals with Australia, Chile and the European Free Trade Association.
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WE NEED TWO-SIDED FREE TRADE, NOT JUST ONE SIDED FREE TRADE, BUT IT'S HARD TO GAME THIS OUT.
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Besides negotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mulroney also was behind an earlier free trade deal in 1988.
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Some 463 free trade deals were promised to replace free trade arrangements Britain benefits from as a union member.
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Sanders would reverse trade deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Central American Free Trade Agreement.
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The current discussion about free trade agreements too often forgets the tremendous benefits that free trade agreements offer U.S. exporters.
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Georgia has free trade agreements with Turkey, the European Free Trade Association countries, and CIS countries including the Russian Federation.
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Instead, the U.K. will pursue a free-trade deal with the bloc, consisting of tariff-free trade and a customs agreement.
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During his presidential campaign, Trump railed against free trade, promising to renegotiate deals like the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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The North American Free Trade Agreement remains a cornerstone of the free trade strategies of Mexico, Canada and the United States.
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Ongoing negotiations toward both the Tripartite Free Trade Area and the African Union's Continental Free Trade Area must include services in trade.
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The Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) will create one of the world's largest free trade blocs, with 44 countries now signed up.
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She used to be for free trade but today she is in a no man's land between free trade and anti-trade.
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She criticized Trump's handling of free trade, noting that 110,000 jobs in the district depend on the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Buhari pivots against free trade agreements This isn't the first time President Buhari has refused to sign an African free trade deal.
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Sri Lanka wants to finalize a free trade deal with China and a free trade deal with India this year, Kodituwakku said.
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Whether it's free trade, not free trade, I don't care what kind of trade it is, I want good deals for our country.
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In recent days, President Trump has spoken openly about terminating North American Free Trade Agreement, the free trade agreement with Canada and Mexico.
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As far as domestic policy and trade which is killing our country, he said free trade and I believe in free trade also.
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In lieu of emphasizing the benefits of free trade for American consumers and businesses, progressives often deride free trade as a job killer.
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He hopes his focus on Biden's support for the North American Free Trade Agreement, and free trade generally, could lift him to victory.
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The renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has quieted the mantra that all free trade agreements are good for America.
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FUNDAMENTALS * FREE TRADE: China is planning a pilot project to drop all duties and ease procedures at its Shanghai Free Trade Zone, sources said, as Beijing looks to position itself as a leader in promoting free trade amid its trade war with Washington.
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With free trade, you come into more contact with foreign companies, new ideas, new people The Economist: Is free trade good for economic growth?
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She voted in favor of free trade agreements with Australia, Morocco, Oman, Chile and Singapore, but voted against the Central American Free Trade Agreement.
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She desires a comprehensive free trade agreement with the EU, while simultaneously pushing for more free trade deals with the rest of the world.
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Canada, which is worried about the potential unraveling of the North American Free Trade Agreement, has begun negotiating a free trade deal with Mercosur.
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And he was an apostle for free trade, negotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement and laying the groundwork for the World Trade Organization.
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Trump has also said he would renegotiate or scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement, the 1994 free-trade deal with Mexico and Canada.
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"I agree with you that free trade should be the way to go but of course free trade should also be fair trade," Mahathir said.
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Trump has said that he also plans to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, a free trade deal joining the US, Mexico and Canada.
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The trade group, called Tariffs Hurt the Heartland, which includes the Americans for Free Trade coalition and Farmers for Free Trade, disagreed with Trump's position.
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In fact, the SBE Council recently testified before Congress urging for free trade and the "strengthening, not undermining" of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Third, these broad tariffs would disrupt ongoing negotiations to strengthen the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS).
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Clinton over the North American Free Trade Agreement, which Mr. Clinton signed in 1993 and has become a symbol of voters' frustration with free trade.
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"I agree with you that free trade should be the way to go but of course free trade should also be fair trade," Mahathir said.
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The European Union has described the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) as "the most ambitious free trade deal ever concluded with a developing country".
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This can be inspired by the CETA (Canada-EU free trade agreement) or Japan FTA (free trade agreement) provisions, but this will need to go further.
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To start, we need to revisit a core tenet of free trade policies like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
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If the U.S. were to leave, they would have to negotiate lots of other free trade agreements; current free trade agreements only cover 40% of trade.
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One hope for Mr. Trump's administration is that its skepticism toward free trade leads to policies that help workers whose jobs are vulnerable to free trade.
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Mr. Trump, for example, has repeatedly threatened to pull the United States out of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Korea Free Trade Agreement.
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Executives at U.S. auto companies said they were concerned about Trump's stance on free trade, especially his tough talk on the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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The White House is finalizing details of a new free trade deal with Mexico to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement — with or without Canada.
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" —Philip Jennings, general secretary of the UNI Global Union on Donald Trump Read more here: Donald Trump will be the 'betrayer-in-chief', global union leader says "If we look at free trade and globalization, I'm a promoter of free trade, I believe in free trade.
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The European Union claims to be about free trade and internally it is about free trade — the Single Market is a very powerful free trade bloc — but when it comes to external trade, in my opinion, the European Union is a bit of a protectionist racket.
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American farmers have a tagline: They want "free trade, not aid," said Angela Hofmann, the co-director of Farmers for Free Trade, who has been touring rural America advocating for the United States-Mexico-Canada trade deal — President Donald Trump's renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Monmouth, which didn't poll on free trade in 2017, showed that opinion on free trade moved dramatically from 2016 to 2018, but hasn't moved greatly since then.
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"We are a clear ambassador of free trade across the globe, because free trade creates wealth," Krueger told CNBC's Annette Weisbach ahead of the Paris Motor Show.
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The Political Challenge of Free Trade Advocacy The central political challenge of the free trade agenda is that the benefits are diffuse while the costs are direct.
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So instead of free trade with the 7 percent of the world that's in the EU, you can get free trade with 100 percent of the world.
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Given the administration's approach preserves NAFTA's duty-free trade terms, the corporate meltdown helpfully spotlighted the gap between NAFTA's "free trade" brand and the pact's actual terms.
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He said Britain could forge a "fantastic free trade relationship" with Europe after it quits the bloc but could also be a champion for global free trade.
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The European Union and Japan appear ready to announce a broad agreement that could create a free-trade zone to rival the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Mr. Trump thinks the United States has been unfairly disadvantaged by sweeping free-trade agreements like the North American Free Trade Agreement or the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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It's also possible that Trump's populist rhetoric blaming free-trade agreements for America's manufacturing job losses could give way to more traditional GOP views of free trade.
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Together, Europe and Japan would create a trading bloc of a size to rival the North American Free Trade Agreement, now the world's largest free trade zone.
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Nigeria, Africa's most populous country and one of its two biggest economies, said it will sign a free-trade deal known as the African Continental Free Trade Agreement.
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So it's something that there are a lot of special trade zones, free trade zones but they are free trade zones that are mainly designed for big companies.
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FREE-TRADE DEAL As in all Reuters polls since late-2016, the vast majority of economists said the two sides would settle eventually on a free-trade deal.
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India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are among the signatories of the South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) that created a free-trade zone in the South Asian region.
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Japan was emerging as a leader on free trade, as it edges closer to a free trade pact with the European Union which could be completed within months.
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Sanders once again emphasized his stance against "unfettered free trade," and his opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which he says treats U.S. companies unfairly.
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Leaders are poised to approve the African Continental Free Trade Area, a deal that will unite the 55 member countries of the African Union in tariff-free trade.
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Despite fierce resistance from labor unions, President Bill Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement in 25, opening tariff-free trade between the US, Canada, and Mexico.
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The announced departure of Trump's top economic advisor Gary Cohn, the most high-profile free trade advocate in the administration, marked another blow to the free trade agenda.
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While free trade has long been an article of faith in Mexico, uncertainty over the fate of the North American Free Trade Agreement is hitting the country hard.
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And all of this happened with the backdrop of the U.S. withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, its potential withdrawals from the North American Free Trade Agreement and KORUS (a free trade agreement with South Korea), and a probable indefinite hold on many of the free-trade deals in the works.
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It certainly seemed so when Donald Trump's tirades against his country's North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico shattered a seeming consensus in favour of free trade.
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A tepid supporter of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), his nationalist economic agenda calls for reviving industries like agriculture that have been rendered uncompetitive by free trade.
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Leaders of all three North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) member countries have now acknowledged the benefits that might be gained by renegotiating the 1994 regional free trade agreement.
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Free trade has been a fixture for Mexico, the United States and Canada since the mid-1990s when all three countries ratified the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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But Democratic presidents have been more pro-free trade — Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were strong advocates for major free trade agreements and disinclined toward protectionism of any kind.
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While the president was threatening to rip up the North American Free Trade Agreement, the European Union was putting the final touches on a free-trade pact with Canada.
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Can we really know that Trump caused the change of opinion on free trade, or did Republican voters change their minds and then endorse an anti-free trade candidate?
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After 1988, when Canada signed a free-trade agreement with the United States (replaced in 20163 by the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA), resistance to American influence weakened.
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Pence, who staunchly supported free trade agreements as a 12-year veteran of Congress, looked to square joining Trump, who has made opposing free trade a centerpiece of his campaign.
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While the North American Free Trade Agreement was enacted in Bill Clinton's presidency, Hillary Clinton as a senator a decade later voted against a free trade deal with Central America.
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The Zhoushan Free Trade Zone is in the coastal province of Zhejiang and is a new free trade zone the Chinese government approved earlier this year to boost commodities trade.
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The group, which brands itself "Tariffs Hurt the Heartland" and includes the Americans for Free Trade coalition and Farmers for Free Trade, crunches tariff payment data nationally and by state.
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As presidential candidates in both parties find resonance with an anti-free trade platform, the ground underneath the decades old bipartisan consensus on free trade policy seems to be crumbling.
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But overall, free trade is beneficial to the U.S. Because of free trade, Americans enjoy higher living standards and a wider variety of more affordable products like clothing and electronics.
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Negotiator The free-trade agreement between Canada and the United States that was signed in 1988 reshaped Canada's economy and provided the framework for the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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When you consider that the oldest free trade agreement in the United States was signed in 1985 with Israel, and that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect more than 20 years ago, it makes sense to revisit current free trade agreements to make sure that they are constantly improving.
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And while Sanders supporters aren't much more skeptical of free trade than Clinton supporters are, Trump voters are much more likely to oppose free trade than the rest of their party.
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While Trump has blasted free-trade deals, leading Democrats, including Clinton, also have criticized Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership pact that would create a free-trade zone ranging from Japan to Chile.
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Fair trade is about free trade, and the United States has a right to promote free trade for its industries and workers and an obligation to enforce our international trade laws.
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African countries launched a historic free trade agreement at the African Union Summit in Rwanda on Wednesday, establishing the largest free trade market since the formation of the World Trade Organization.
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Look, I'm a fundamental, but I think last time on the show i said this, but I'm a fundamental believer in free trade and that free trade list bodes for everybody.
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He has held big rallies in the state and has talked up his opposition to free trade deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement — a key difference with Biden.
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One study suggests free trade increases income inequality and that the cost of redistribution could erode upward of 20 percent of the overall benefits that come from a free trade deal.
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We haven't communicated how the number of manufacturing jobs has been declining for decades, long before the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and other free trade pacts.
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As someone who has reported on several negotiations — including the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement and the North American Free Trade Agreement — I'd suggest the studios keep it that way.
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While it was clear such a free trade pact would be some way off, and well after Juncker steps down in a year's time, the EU would look to take advantage of African efforts to forge a free trade area within the continent to work toward a comprehensive continent-to-continent free trade agreement.
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See, look, free trade will really help the economic growth, OK. But you can&apost have free trade if all these countries, most particularly China, are engaging in unfair and illegal trading.
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Yet some argue that barrier-free trade in goods with the EU is worth more than any number of hypothetical future free-trade deals with third countries being touted by Dr Fox.
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Trade may be the most consequential issue for Trump's core supporters, who believe that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and other free trade deals take jobs away from American workers.
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"We are, of course, a bit concerned about some of the noises regarding free trade because free trade for shipping is just crucial and fundamental," Poulsson told CNBC's "Street Signs " on Wednesday.
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In America Mrs Clinton's flip-flop on free trade is a tactical concession to her party's protectionist wing: among the free-trade deals she now decries is one that she helped negotiate.
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The group aims to build support for updating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) that they argue will promote economic and jobs growth.
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Clinton's resolve against free trade deals, since she has supported some in the past and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, pushed for the ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Tinkering at the margins, as evidenced by recent rewrites of the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement and the North American Free Trade Agreement, alters mostly just the optics of trade policy.
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That includes Canada and Mexico, which are in the midst of renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, and South Korea, which is renegotiating its free-trade pact with the United States.
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"He is a true believer in free trade and the benefits free trade brings to our economy," Senator Orrin Hatch, a Republican, said in a speech in July 2017, speaking about Eissenstat.
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And people have made-- a lot of this because Peter Navarro is somebody who-- has-- some--pretty strong ideas-- about-- free trade and where he thinks the problems are with free trade.
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Free-trade agreements rarely cover services, and Canada's deal with the European Union, for example, which supplements Canadian membership of the North American Free Trade Agreement, gives very little in this sector.
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"If Europe believes in free trade, we're ready to sign a free trade agreement," Mnuchin said, adding that such a deal would require the elimination of tariffs, non-tariff barriers and subsidies.
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Abe and Xi agreed to continue to work toward creating multilateral free-trade pacts, including RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) and a trilateral Japan-China-South Korea free trade agreement, Nishimura said.
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TM: You know the message I was giving was a very simple one which, is that I think if we look at free trade at globalization I'm a a promoter of free trade.
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In particular, a majority of Sanders voters believe that "free trade is good for the US" — a pretty unpopulist proposition — and they're only slightly more skeptical of free trade than Clinton voters are.
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Since Trump has made opposition to free trade agreements a key part of his campaign message, another variable measured whether respondents favor or oppose the US making free trade agreements with other countries.
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Not so free trade World leaders redoubled their commitment to free trade in the wake of the global financial crisis in 2008 as they sought to prevent recession turning into a global depression.
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Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters say free trade agreements have been bad for the United States — 61 percent, versus 32 percent of those who say free trade is positive for the country.
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This stance echoes the rise of opposition to free trade and globalization, from calls of eliminating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to nations exiting, or seeking to exit, the European Union.
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On June 30, it will sign a free-trade agreement with Vietnam in Hanoi that the European Commission on Tuesday called "the most ambitious free trade deal ever concluded with a developing country."
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Trump warned Thursday that if Mexico did not agree to new terms on the free trade deal, known formally as the North American Free Trade Agreement, then he would simply "terminate" the deal.
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In the meantime, the UK government plans to negotiate a new free-trade deal with the EU, as well as free-trade agreements with countries like the US, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.
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AND WHILE THESE OTHER COUNTRIES SPEAK ABOUT FREE TRADE, THEY ARE ACTUALLY THE MOST PROTECTIONIST PEOPLE AND WE ARE THE LEAST PROTECTIONIST AND THE MOST FREE TRADE OF ANY OF THE MAJOR COUNTRIES.
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The AU claims it is also on the cusp of agreeing a free trade deal, the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA), for goods and services to be launched by the end of 2018.
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Secondly, that the benefits of free trade are generally understood.
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Free trade Protectionism has always been a problem in China.
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Quick: Some of them will say this isn't free trade.
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Curbing free trade was a central element of Trump's campaign.
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The broader context is the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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He believed that free trade was a force for good.
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The drift away from free trade could easily gather steam.
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Already, Ryan is backtracking on his support for free trade.
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"The free trade agreement makes a big difference," he said.
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He has attacked the free trade doctrine of Republican economics.
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ECONOMISTS have long argued that free trade makes everyone richer.
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The two nations signed a free trade agreement in 2008.
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Economists have long argued that free trade makes everyone richer.
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Do the losers from free trade need to be compensated?
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Free trade is bound to sound different to someone whose
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Like global free trade, global capital markets offer broader opportunities.
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Chief among Trump's arguments against free trade are job losses.
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The automaker said free trade was important for the future.
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Presidents have tried to get around the free trade agreements.
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They are part of the Americans For Free Trade coalition.
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It all comes down to free trade, in a nutshell.
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Well free trade means we are not taxing each other.
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Neither is blind faith in free trade and the marketplace.
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Even the communists had joined the consensus around free trade.
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But in others, he diverges significantly, particularly on free trade.
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Free trade has been a double blessing for such companies.
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We know that unbridled free trade will exacerbate climate change.
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Free trade is increasingly coming under fire by populist leaders.
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"So the status quo is not free trade," he said.
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Britain has benefited enormously from its embrace of free trade.
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The policy change appears to be toward reducing free trade.
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"We're for fair trade, not free trade," he told Hill.
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Many Americans see the North American Free Trade Agreement as
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He hasn't withdrawn from the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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The deal would modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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" He added: "Those who support free trade are more 'lukewarm.
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USMCA is the renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement deal.
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Our ticket is the only one to support free trade.
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Brian Kuehl is executive director of Farmers for Free Trade.
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The retreat from free trade, meanwhile, is a bipartisan one.
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Cook admitted free trade does hurt certain segments of society.
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Most believed free trade benefited other countries, not their own.
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We're seeing the demise of traditional support for free trade.
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These countries tend to be extremely open to free trade.
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Has free trade been a bad deal for the U.S.?
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He supports reproductive rights, free trade and expanded health care.
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Churchill championed free trade to the consternation of Tory protectionists.
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Biden has supported free trade policies throughout his political career.
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They detained thousands of free trade unionists and dozens died.
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He was against free trade; in favor of nuclear proliferation.
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To work appropriately, free trade must also be fair trade.
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As late as 2015, Republican voters overwhelmingly supported free trade.
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"This is not a free trade, but a managed trade."
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I'm not making a purist case for free trade here.
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He does want the U.S., Mexico, Canada free trade agreement.
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Toomey has said USMCA as revised will hamper free trade.
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There has been a similar shift on free trade issues.
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Also on the agenda are terrorism, migration and free trade.
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He's saying 'I want free trade to be fair trade.
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No, U.S. free trade agreements are working better than expected.
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She is also seen as a champion of free trade.
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We see Africa pursuing free trade agreements across the continents.
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Free trade is a wonderful way to see this realized.
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The United States needs more free trade agreements, not fewer.
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S. Free Trade Agreement is a cornerstone of this strategy.
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Cohn, a free trade advocate, had been against the tariffs.
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Wakanda's free trade agreement with the United States wasn't forever.
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But only governments can open the avenues of free trade.
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S. free trade agreement once we've left (the European Union).
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Let&aposs remove all tariffs, all non- tariff barriers, all subsidies and have complete total free trade between our countries and they all turned him down because they don&apost really want free trade.
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"Some countries will probably think it's fine to have a free trade deal with us (EFTA), but won't necessarily think that it's equally simple to have a free trade deal with Britain," she said.
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"We are aiming to negotiate a comprehensive free trade agreement with the European Union, which is more ambitious than the standard free trade deal that NIESR has based its findings on," said a spokesperson.
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Generally, unless a country is part of a separate free-trade agreement like the North American Free Trade Agreement, importers must pay a tax on products and materials they bring into the United States.
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He has been an outspoken advocate of free trade and has defended the North American Free Trade Agreement, which many voters in Rust Belt states blame for the loss of manufacturing jobs to Mexico.
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During his first successful congressional campaign, in 2000, his opponents criticized the North American Free Trade Agreement, or Nafta, but Mr. Pence expressed support for the trade pact and the idea of free trade.
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He has sealed an accord to update to the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada, revised a free-trade agreement with South Korea and reached a limited trade pact with Japan.
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He has now committed himself to seeking only a loose free trade agreement with Europe on the model of the Canadian-European Free Trade Agreement rather than seeking any close customs union-style arrangement.
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The three Asia leaders agreed on Tuesday to continue talks about a free trade agreement among their countries while also pursuing a wider free trade pact in Asia Pacific — the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.
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In addition, there have been several ambitious attempts to liberalize regional trade, notably the European Union and the North American Free Trade Agreement, as well as a dense network of bilateral free trade agreements.
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Since President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. has pulled out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and is re-negotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Korea-United States Free Trade Agreement.
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Her defense of free trade was slightly jarring coming after Britain's decision to quit the largest free-trade grouping on earth, the European Union, judging that control over immigration and complete sovereignty mattered more.
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Throwing into question the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement, until it was resolved last week, complicates working with our allies on China.
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Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement The Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), one of the AU's frameworks to keep the continent integrated, is an agreement allowing free access to markets and market information in Africa.
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If there is one thing that economists agree and there are not that many things that you can take economists to agree upon, free trade and the benefits of free trade is one such thing.
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She added that the United Kingdom is a champion of free trade and would work to put in place free trade agreements with the United States and other countries once it leaves the European Union.
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Democrats signaled they plan to closely scrutinize the trade deal, which will replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that has dictated the terms of free trade in the region for a quarter-century.
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IS THERE A PULLBACK FROM THE GLOBAL SYSTEM OF FREE TRADE OR THE ATTEMPT TO GET TO A FREE TRADE MARKET GLOBALLY OR IS THIS A FIRST STEP IN WHAT WILL BE A LONG NEGOTIATION?
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Alliance members are among the keenest proponents of free trade in the Americas and have backed Mexico after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to scrap the North American Free Trade Agreement and tightened immigration controls.
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Britain, Davis said, wanted a comprehensive free trade agreement and a customs agreement to make trade as frictionless as possible while being free to strike free trade deals with swiftly growing countries across the world.
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I think Donald Trump ran his campaign very much with a very much big picture thing, talking about free trade, talking about the problems with free trade, something that both parties had sort of ignored.
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Attending a summit in Kigali, Rwanda, last week, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa did not immediately sign the African Union's proposed free trade agreement, which posits a free trade area between its 55 member states.
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Sanders countered by attacking Biden for his support for free trade deals, including the North American Free Trade Agreement, a sore subject for many Michigan residents who saw their auto industry jobs move to Mexico.
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Conservatives might editorialize about it more, but liberal presidents arguably advanced free trade the most, from Bill Clinton's signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement to Barack Obama's negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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The United States Korea Free Trade Agreement, America's largest trade pact after the North American Free Trade Agreement, was negotiated during the President George W. Bush's administration and signed by the two countries in 2007.
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Robert Merry: The reality is that America has had times of great prosperity under both free trade and protectionist policies and also has had times of economic difficulty under both free trade and protectionist policies.
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President Trump has had the courage to stand athwart free-trade fanatics (an aside: we never have had free trade with China) and those obsessed with appeasing the Chinese so as to not risk conflict.
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison mounted a defense of free trade, saying a billion people had been lifted out of extreme poverty since 1991 because of the jobs and cheaper goods that free trade brought.
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That the world's biggest exporter likes free trade is only natural.
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Free trade talks typically take many years to conclude. CHINA-U.
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FREE TRADE IS WONDERFUL FOR THE WORLD AND THE UNITED STATES.
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BUT THE PENALITIES FROM FREE TRADE ARE TERRIBLE TO SPECIFIC INDUSTRIES.
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Trump also wants to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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GOP's legislative wish list, including the North American Free Trade Agreement,
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CETA, the Canadian free trade agreement, took seven years to negotiate.
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Trump has talked about renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Leaving free-trade agreements such as NAFTA might mean further restrictions.
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As Reagan was championing free trade, New Yorkers were living it.
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He backs recent EU free-trade deals that Mr Fillon rejects.
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No one believes in either purely free trade or pure protectionism.
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Exhibit A is the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR).
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Pence, meanwhile, has a long history of voting for free trade.
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Free trade talks typically take many years to conclude. CHINA-U.
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Britain's attitude to free trade is more complex than it seems.
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So having equalization through free trade is very healthy for oil.
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Free trade is still essential to the growth of this country.
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The Economist: At its most basic level, what is free trade?
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It backed free trade and praised immigrants for their work ethic.
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Massive interference with free trade means a far less productive economy.
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But completely free trade is not the perfect prescription, he said.
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But on the Democratic side, Clinton hasn't embraced free trade either.
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Yet one of Mr Trump's beliefs on free trade is true.
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I want free trade, but it's got to be fair trade.
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A mooted free-trade area for the Americas is now defunct.
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The administration is also renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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We simply think that free trade is better for everyone involved.
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There is also considerable skepticism over China's commitment to free trade.
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He said he would sign the African Continental Free Trade Agreement.
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Renegotiate long-standing free-trade agreements — or simply rip them up.
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Some days they were about the perils of free-trade agreements.
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Free trade is an essential component of conservative, free market economics.
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China opened its first free-trade zone in Shanghai in 2013.
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Tariffs have been falling for decades due to free trade agreements.
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"We've talked about tariffs and free trade all year," he said.
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So-called "free trade" was the way to sustained economic prosperity.
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A standard bearer for digital free trade would do the opposite.
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However, Johnson's indicates looser ties and a simple free trade agreement.
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Her bizarre focus on the marvels of free trade, for example.
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The bloc has also reached a free-trade agreement with Vietnam.
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S. Free Trade Agreement that shipped nearly 100,000 U.S. jobs overseas.
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After all, such cheating absolutely violates free markets and free trade.
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Europe is going to do a free trade agreement with Brazil.
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President Paul Kagame is a proponent of pan-African free trade.
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IN REGARDS TO EUROPE, THE PRESIDENT PROPOSED A FREE TRADE AGREEMENT.
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FREE-TRADE DEAL WITH EU GRAPHIC OF BREXIT'S ECONOMIC IMPACT tmsnrt.
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It set an amazing precedent for free trade across the globe.
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Mr. Poklinkoski praised the senator's consistent opposition to free-trade agreements.
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The Maldives has no free trade pacts with any other country.
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The African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA)encompasses 1.2 billion people.
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From an American perspective, the case for free trade is overwhelming.
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I've got a lot of free trade blood left in me.
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The campaign will call on Congress to support free trade policies.
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Negotiate a free-trade deal with the EU by December 2020.
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They even foreswore protectionism and committed to accelerate free trade talks.
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But free trade has been devastating for American workers and manufacturing.
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His free-trade views clashed with Mr. Trump's threatened metal tariffs.
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In a free-trade world, is this good planning, or cheating?
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The case for free trade is one of its major themes.
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This is China lecturing the US and Europe about free trade.
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Working-class Americans and American businesses both benefit from free trade.
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The old days before free trade, of course, weren't without problems.
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Mr. President, protect free trade and keep our agriculture economy strong.
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Forget the longstanding Republican orthodoxy about the wonders of free trade.
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But a pain-free trade war with China is nearly impossible.
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The European Union this week opened free-trade negotiations with Australia.
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America's and China's prosperity have been built on global free trade.
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A free trade deal was only of limited value, he said.
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K. free trade agreement when it comes to Congress for approval.
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The two countries are also working on a free trade deal.
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This includes one of today's most talked about topics: free trade.
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If fair and free trade thrives, so, too, will our nation.
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That free trade agreement, called Korus, went into effect in 2012.
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Consider the talks surrounding the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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Our partners in free trade agreements make numerous concessions and commitments.
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Free trade is a pejorative term and international alliances are unneeded.
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Part of supporting U.S. exporters may mean supporting free trade agreements.
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But Germany's blue-collar workforce clearly does not fear free trade.
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I believe in the principles of free trade and open markets.
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THE JOURNAL HAS ALWAYS BEEN A VERY FREE TRADE ORIENTED NEWSPAPER.
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There are many reasons to be critical of free trade agreements.
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America cannot truly be great again without open and free trade.
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Andrew Scheer, the current Conservative leader, opposes free trade with China.
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"We want free trade, but not at any cost," he said.
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This would translate into a FREE TRADE AGREEMENT (FTA) by 2021.
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Now, however, free trade may be shaking up the Coke bottle.
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He voted for the Central American Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA.
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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross told the Wall Street Journal that trade actions on aluminum, semiconductors and shipbuilding are under review as well as plans to start free-trade talks directly with Japan, the United Kingdom and European Union even as plans to look at existing free-trade pacts with South Korea and the North America free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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Read the letter: Go deeper: Scoop: Trump's $2 trillion spending dream Editor's note: This post has been corrected to reflect that NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement (not the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement).
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Free trade on the Pacific rim took a knock from America's withdrawal from TPP, but it seems that many people underestimated the willingness of the region's other countries to pick up the baton of free trade.
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A longtime opponent of free trade agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Brown has supported Trump's trade views and blocked a bipartisan Senate effort to limit the president's power to impose tariffs.
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All that has changed over the last decade: Thanks to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and other free trade mechanisms, most of the bilateral issues between Canada and the United States have been resolved.
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Adesina said a continental free-trade zone launched last month, the African Continental Free Trade Area, could help speed up economic growth and development, but African nations needed to remove non-tariff barriers to boost trade.
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Free trade is also good for consumers in rich countries: Walk into any store today, and the variety of goods you see is unimaginable in a world with borders between every nation and no free trade.
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It added that trade tensions may spur Mexico to pursue a bilateral free-trade deal with China, especially if NAFTA, or the North American Free Trade Agreement between Mexico, Canada and the U.S., were to be dismantled.
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That is one of the routes for getting to free trade, but we have also supported the route of free-trade agreements that is likely to be chosen by Theresa May's government wherever others will co-operate.
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There's been a great deal of discussion recently about whether free-trade agreements, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) or the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), are a positive or negative for American workers and businesses.
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"Trade must be our top priority: Continued free trade with the EU. Continued free trade with those countries we have agreements with as a current member of the EU," she told supporters in a speech on Thursday.
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But unlike a G7 leaders' communique of 2016, the Bari meeting did not endorse free trade and reject protectionism, reflecting pressure from the United States where President Donald Trump has signaled his scepticism about free trade deals.
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"We've already seen free trade as nearly dead in the United States with our candidates all backing off of any kind of free trade agreements," Diane Swonk, founder and chief economist of DS Economics, said on CNN.
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The EU is also seeking to conclude free trade deals with Mexico, now in talks with the United States to save the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and the Mercosur countries Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.
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Free Trade and the Poor In Caleb Crain's essay about whether capitalism poses a threat to democracy, he discusses Robert Kuttner's views on the impact of free trade but leaves out a key consideration (Books, May 14th).
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Canada will continue to explore a free trade agreement with China, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, as it weighs its options after the United States threatened to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Trump admin rejects anti-protectionism language in G85033 free trade statement: The Trump administration on Saturday rebuffed language in a free trade statement at a G20 meeting that would have opposed economic protectionism, The Washington Post reported.
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Mexico began lifting tariffs and allowing more foreign investment in the 1980s, a transition to free trade given an exclamation point in 1994, when Mexico, the United States and Canada enacted the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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In 1.53, according to Bruce Cain, a political scientist at Stanford, Trump was crucial to bridging the gap between his followers — "protectionist, anti-elite elements that are skeptical of globalization and free trade" — and free-trade conservatives.
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In the eighteen-forties, when Ireland was struck with famine, which was largely caused by free trade—the British insisted on exporting Irish food, despite catastrophic crop failure—Wilson called for a homeopathic remedy: more free trade.
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African heads of state have gathered in Kigali, Rwanda, to sign a free trade agreement that would result in the largest free trade area in terms of participating countries since the formation of the World Trade Organization.
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Brexit offers Britons more money, more control, free trade and planned immigration.
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Mrs Merkel is absolutely right to proclaim the message of free trade.
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First, economic theory always predicted that free trade would harm some workers.
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In a fact-free political climate, it's easy to bash free trade.
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Free trade agreements have meant big business and jobs for U.S. companies.
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Free trade expands the economic pie; interference with trade shrinks that pie.
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They have all been disproportionately harmed by globalism and unfettered free trade.
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Talks to modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement are moving slowly.
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A proposal by Uruguay to negotiate free trade with China was rejected.
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Free trade also lowers prices for consumers and export costs for businesses.
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Does fair trade or free trade put more money in Americans' pockets?
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Israel and China have agreed to begin negotiating a free-trade agreement.
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The country's first free-trade zone was established in the mid-1980s.
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Trump's skepticism about free trade puts him at odds with Republican orthodoxy.
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Clarendon Press, 1997"Free Trade Under Fire" (3rd edition), by Douglas Irwin.
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Little wonder that the farm lobby tends vocally to support free trade.
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Ted Cruz on the defensive over his support for free trade agreements.
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DONALD TRUMP has consistently slammed the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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He wanted revenge for a comment by Boeing's CEO about free trade!
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America is the land of free trade … precisely until it is not.
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An incomplete free-trade area exists, though intra-Balkan trade remains feeble.
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They also announced talks aimed at an eventual free trade agreement. bit.
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Asked about anti-free-trade sentiment on the left, Tyler said Sen.
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When that competition is deemed lawless, political support for free trade withers.
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The U.S. economy just cast a vote in favor of free trade.
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Income inequality, and a free-trade area for Africa, you might expect.
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In practice, Britons are among Europe's keenest wreckers of free-trade deals.
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Starting out with NAFTA, Bill Clinton forced "free trade" upon the party.
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He also again called the North American Free Trade Agreement a "disaster."
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It's a 12-nation free trade agreement negotiated by the Obama administration.
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Trump has broken with the Republican Party's traditional embrace of free trade.
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Last year, it added a free trade deal with the European Union.
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We have advocated free trade, free markets and open societies ever since.
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I think free-trade is a great thing for the United States.
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And this week's leak is another nail in the free-trade coffin.
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Donald Trump has been bashing free trade for much of his campaign.
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First of all, we're totally for an open economy and free trade.
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Instead, both sides are exploring chances for negotiating a free-trade deal.
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Neither candidate in America's presidential race is an advocate of free trade.
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But that would be an optimistic view of recent free trade agreements.
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But at home, too, the overall benefits of free trade are unarguable.
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Ultimately they know his economic advisers are very much pro-free trade.
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All in all, Secretary Clinton has a mixed record on free trade.
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However, the U.S.' free-trade agreement with South Korea flipped that script.
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Why further antagonize them with swipes at free trade and multilateral agreements?
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Trump also wants to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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He led Japan's negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade bloc.
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Trump argued that free trade has taken manufacturing jobs away from Americans.
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Bill Clinton ran for the White House on a free trade platform.
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And who is our biggest international customer for this free trade bonanza?
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Free trade and globalization are both likely to survive the Trump era.
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Yet the EU's single market is deeper than a free-trade zone.
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For producers, free trade only makes conditions trickier for domestic-focused manufacturers.
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And free trade has bought benefits to the vast majority of Americans.
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FTAs (free trade agreements) have not resulted in both sides being happy.
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" "I'm a free trader — I believe in the value of free trade.
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Even economists realise that free trade can be a hard sell politically.
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The second is a free-trade deal like the EU's with Canada.
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The hostility of big firms towards Mr Trump goes beyond free trade.
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The presidential candidates have sent a spark into the free-trade woodpile.
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Restrictions on free trade and unnecessarily or uncertain regulation limit economic freedom.
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But recent headlines obscure the limits of its commitment to free trade.
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The last round of U.S.-EU free-trade agreement negotiations broke down.
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On the effects of free trade in general, economists hold similar consensus.
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For example, why free trade is better, why entitlement reform is necessary.
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Britain was part of the largest free trade zone in the world.
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The-- the Chinese are very good at the rhetoric of free trade.
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Pence has supported free trade deals with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea.
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In January, he flew to Davos to defend globalization and free trade.
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Picking on NAFTA (and even free trade) makes for good political fodder.
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Already, financial and trade wars are damaging free trade and jeopardizing alliances.
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Poland and the European Free Trade Association Surveillance Authority support the Commission.
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Politically, it's impressive that free trade was not supported by either candidate.
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Washington, Oregon, and California became strong proponents of free trade, as well.
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PISANI: BUT GENERALLY YOU WERE KNOWN FOR YOUR DEFENSE OF FREE TRADE.
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After a transition period, May wants an EU-UK free trade pact.
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S. Free Trade Agreement a "horrible" deal and threatened to abandon it.
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I'm a firm believer in free trade and-- not to impose tariffs.
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Republicans believe in fiscal conservatism, small government, economic opportunity, and free trade.
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After all, ours is one of the world's largest free trade zones.
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Second, America's free trade agreements (FTAs) actually improve the country's trade balance.
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The world is moving away from free trade and laissez faire policy.
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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) significantly reorientated all three economies.
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Would the U.K. want a Canadian-style Free Trade Arrangement with Europe?
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Republican orthodoxy that free trade is best for the economy and growth.
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But some limits on the operation of free trade are quite acceptable.
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Both parties embraced the idea that free trade is great for everybody.
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The state's voters, scarred by the free trade deals associated with Mrs.
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They opposed free trade more than any other group in the country.
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Continued unilateral trade negotiations create uncertainty about the current free trade framework.
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But opinions in the United States about free trade are permanently shifting.
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They sign up to the argument that free trade leads to prosperity.
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Free trade is not surrender, and not something that only suckers do.
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For champions of free trade, this is the true measure of prosperity.
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They clashed over climate change, free trade, same-sex marriage and more.
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Paine was a lifelong advocate of commerce, free trade, and free markets.
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Trump has championed a fierce anti-free-trade agenda along the trail.
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"Tariff-free trade will be restored in these products," the statement said.
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Before free trade, picture framers in Canada mostly turned to Peterboro Matboards.
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But with the 1998 Good Friday peace accord, free trade was allowed.
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The Democrats have traditionally been less enamored with free trade than Republicans.
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S. free trade deal, said scrapping NAFTA will hurt the United States.
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How has Nafta and free trade affected you, your family and friends?
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They spoke of a need for free trade and rallied against protectionism.
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That's up from 62.5 percent under the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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AJC calls for a centrist approach to most matters, including free trade.
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In July, President Buhari signed the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA).
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The arrangement is thus a sort of free-trade agreement on steroids.
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"We believe in the benefits of free trade and competition," she said.
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Among the policies that have fueled its growth is unilateral free trade.
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The EU reached a free trade agreement with Canada back in 2016.
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Churchill himself was deselected in 1904 in an argument over free trade.
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"We have to mix, obviously, free trade and fair trade," Gentiloni added.
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Recently, the WTO ruled that COOL was a barrier to free trade.
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That's true free trade, and that's what we're trying to get to.
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The loss of free trade arrangements with countries including Japan and Turkey.
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The answer is clear: the gains of free trade are greatly stratified.
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Beijing is also increasingly positioning itself as a global free trade champion.
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Talks for the African Continental Free Trade Area began in June 2015.
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That is the only way to have free trade in North America.
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S. Free Trade Agreement until South Korea agreed to amend the agreement.
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Free trade Republicans like House Speaker Paul Ryan and Pennsylvania's Republican Sen.
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The longtime CNBC personality advocates for free trade and generally opposes tariffs.
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Harris noticeably staked out a more free-trade position during the debate.
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EVANS: WE ALWAYS TALK IN BROADLY, LARRY, WITH YOU, ABOUT FREE TRADE.
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There, he said that free trade needs to be fair and reciprocal.
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The Trump administration should not pull out of this free trade agreement.
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Bush ran as a "compassionate conservative" and staunch advocate of free trade.
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Further supporting gold was geopolitical uncertainty sparked North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Free trade agreements are not the reason the steel jobs went away.
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In fact, China is already pursuing an alternative regional free trade initiative.
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Texas will want to maintain its free trade agreement and other privileges.
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In particular, Gingrich has always been an enthusiastic supporter of free trade.
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But the former vice president — who supported the North American Free Trade Agreement and Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deals that some of his Democratic rivals oppose — called for "new rules" and "new processes" to craft trade relationships.
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As Republicans have shifted away from supporting free-trade agreements, Democrats have embraced them: In the Times poll, 73 percent of Democrats said they thought free-trade agreements helped the United States, compared with 51 percent of Republicans.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday the Trump administration may seek a provision to deter currency manipulation in the North American Free Trade Agreement as part of its planning for future free trade deals.
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INTERLAKEN, Switzerland (Reuters) - Britain can forge a "fantastic free trade relationship" with Europe after it quits the European Union, but can also be a champion for global free trade, lawmaker and Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson said on Friday.
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Japan was concerned that it would be formally asked to initiate bilateral free trade negotiations with the U.S. Korea was worried that President Trump would announce that he would withdraw from the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS).
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They also sparked renewed fears about whether the president will tear up the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada or scrap a free-trade pact with South Korea, both of which the administration is renegotiating.
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Since only goods that are made in a NAFTA country receive the benefit of the lower tariffs provided by the free trade agreement, these rules play an important part in ensuring who benefits from the free trade agreement.
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The African Continental Free Trade Area deal will come into force in July and aims to bring together 55 countries, 1.3 billion people and $3.4 trillion nominal gross domestic product to establish the world's biggest free trade bloc.
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Trump's rhetoric about free trade and protectionism has resonated with voters across the US, and it's free trade that's being blamed for decimating many once-prosperous local economies in the Upstate region, leaving people feeling ignored and angry.
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DAVID WHITEHOUSELondon * It is a surprise that your newspaper, with its free trade and libertarian instincts, does not consider a fourth option: a clean break supported by a comprehensive free-trade deal, as the EU struck with Canada recently.
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Economists have been having this same discussion for decades, ever since President Bill Clinton signed the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994, which opened up free trade between Canada, Mexico, and the United States for the first time.
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Asked about the possible implications of free trade where Britain is outside the customs union, Hawes told lawmakers before May's speech that British-built cars may not comply with the criteria set down in the average free-trade deal.
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Promising talks with Britain offers Mr Ryan, a leading advocate of free trade, a chance to stress that the Republican Party is larger than Mr Trump, its presumptive presidential nominee and a noisy sceptic about recent free-trade deals.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has wrapped up negotiations for a free trade and investment pact with members of the four-nation European Free Trade Association, and a final agreement is due to be signed in December, Indonesia's trade minister said.
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Progressives' current stance ignores the vast benefits of free trade; ahead of the 2020 elections, it is vital for both progressives' electoral viability and the well-being of Americans that they refrain from using free trade as a scapegoat.
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If the American people know that some of the money that results from free trade will improve the infrastructure in their communities and they see jobs being created in the process, the advantages of free trade will be clear.
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He repeated the same thought last week to British Prime Minister Theresa May, telling her that a soft Brexit (the U.K. remaining part of the EU's free-trade area) would compromise a post-Brexit American-British free-trade agreement.
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Japan has insisted the new Trade Agreement on Goods would not be a wide-ranging free trade agreement, but U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has said he was aiming for a full free trade deal requiring approval by Congress.
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His purpose was simple: to champion free trade, free markets and limited government.
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And a future EU-Africa free trade area could even get a mention.
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Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein comprise the European Free Trade Association, or EFTA.
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Not for many years has free trade been such a hot political topic.
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First, Chinese opinions about free trade were in the past much more mixed.
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In recent years, Japan has become a newly vocal champion of free trade.
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Trump has supported trade protectionism and tariffs, while Ryan supports free-trade agreements.
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NAFTA leaves us with pretty much a free trade zone throughout North America.
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It is divided on issues such as free trade, climate change and NATO.
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Hostility to free trade is still very much present in the White House.
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That's because, while free trade generally increases purchasing power, tariffs can reduce it.
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And he began the process of renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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ET: Fair trade or free trade… which one is better for the country?
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On the surface, the Chinese government is trumpeting the virtues of free trade.
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Developing free trade agreements are also critical to healthy development, the report said.
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Closer security and defence ties with Britain alongside free trade are on offer.
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So they have the rhetoric of free trade, but the reality of protectionism.
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Asked to comment, the Ras al-Khaimah free-trade zone did not reply.
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We take free-trade Europe for granted, but it wasn't always like that.
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He may even be right that free trade is not the best policy.
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Polity Press, 2013"Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946", by Anthony Howe.
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In many countries the opponents of free trade will stand in the way.
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THE North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has long been a populist punchbag.
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After humanitarian causes, next on Gladstone's modern policy agenda would be free trade.
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The pending trade deal will update the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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To them, Mr Trump's economic nationalism and hatred of free trade is anathema.
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He also threatened to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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I think we should be for free trade but I think fair trade.
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Free-trade deals typically take years, not months, to agree on (see chart).
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Canada's dairy system falls outside of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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The group has 27 free-trade agreements in all corners of the world.
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Free trade is one of the subjects that first drew him into politics.
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At present they enjoy tariff-free trade with the country's biggest export market.
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The pending trade deal will update the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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America's conservatives usually back low taxes, free trade and a reduction in regulation.
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The disadvantage is that free trade is not the same as frictionless trade.
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I think it's the wrong binary to talk about free trade or protectionism.
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They argue free trade deals have sapped U.S. jobs and hurt manufacturing workers.
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Inefficient rice-farmers across the continent have much to fear from free trade.
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Iceland has a free-trade deal with China, as does non-EEA Switzerland.
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At first glance Brits love free trade, or at least say they do.
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QUINTANILLA: JEFF IMMELT HAS BEEN A HUGE PROPONENT OF TPP AND FREE TRADE.
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The GOP has for years been very strong proponents of free trade agreements.
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The United States and Canada signed a bilateral free trade deal in 219.
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Yet the economics world was largely united on the merits of free trade.
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South Korea agreed in principle to amend its free-trade agreement with America.
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Of course, Mexico's economy relies heavily on free trade with the United States.
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Nor has he yet withdrawn from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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Rather than the two sides reverting to free trade, the row could escalate.
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This helps members to trade at a discount, even without free-trade agreements.
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We need to return to the days of fair trade, not free trade!
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S. trade negotiations and was committed to safeguarding economic globalization and free trade.
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Just over half of all Americans think free trade is a good thing.
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Some free trade lawmakers in Trump's Republican Party have opposed the actions. Sen.
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They want to see a world of free trade and a small state.
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Unlike his predecessors, Mr Trump is a long-standing sceptic of free trade.
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He fears joining the African free trade area could sweep away such advantages.
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Under President George W. Bush, free trade agreements went from three to 16.
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Today there are six hundred trade agreements free trade agreements around the world.
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Both leaders touted the benefits of free trade in an increasingly digital age.
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The Republican Party has generally been seen as the party of free trade.
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I&aposd like to one day do a free trade agreement with Turkey.
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The broad bipartisan movement toward free trade has hardly been a populist one.
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How to push through the free trade deal between the U.S. and EU?
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We think that we've benefited, the U.S. consumer has benefited from free trade.
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Since 1985, America has signed 403 free-trade agreements (FTAs) covering 20 countries.
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Facile references to "free trade" increasingly have little to do with economic reality.
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This internationalism went along with support for free trade and generous immigration policies.
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That scapegoat is free trade agreements of which NAFTA is the poster child.
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SO THEY HAVE THE RHETORIC OF FREE TRADE, BUT THE REALITY OF PROTECTIONISM.
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As National Review's Charles C.W. Cooke pointed out: CPAC cheers against free trade.
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And we will be now accelerating the talks on those free trade deals.
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Sanders was excellent, as always, criticizing free trade agreements and Wall Street influence.
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My ambition is that Britain will be a global leader in free trade.
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He's consistently supported free trade agreements, crucial to Indiana's manufacturing and agricultural sectors.
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Tariffs are scheduled to be eliminated by 2019 under the free trade deal.
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She broke with President Barack Obama on the Trans-Pacific Free-Trade Deal.
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Free trade with the EU, freer trade with the rest of the world.
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S. trade negotiations and was committed to safeguarding economic globalisation and free trade.
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Might the United Kingdom succeed in negotiating a free-trade agreement with Europe?
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Whatever the explanation, free trade can impose big costs on a few places.
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A looser free trade deal without submitting to EU rules would take longer.
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But they were equally adamant that free trade benefited countries as a whole.
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India had its own free-trade demands that China was wary of meeting.
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It's clear: Free trade with China has hurt more people than originally thought.
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They do so through a network of so-called free-trade agreements (FTAs).
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The GOP Platforms of 85033 and 1956 agreed to free trade only reservedly.
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They are furious that he is a long-standing supporter of free trade.
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The reports say Tesla would operate in a free-trade zone in Shanghai.
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But more and more, economists are also recognizing a downside to free trade.
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NAFTA. What has really happened is that free trade agreements have benefitted the
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Then there are actions under Trump's control -- like his hostility to free trade.
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We also hope to resume negotiations on a free trade agreement with China.
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As a presidential candidate, facing the anti-free-trade Bernie Sanders, she flipped.
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How are 200 percent tariffs by Canada on American dairy products free trade?
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On Friday, the EU will also sign a free-trade deal with Singapore.
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He prioritized the border region's economic interests and the importance of free trade.
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The renegotiation of the 85033 North American Free Trade Agreement begins this week.
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Britain and the United States are in many ways ideal free trade partners.
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The pact is an effort to create a Pacific Rim free-trade zone.
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It's the first-ever renegotiation of a free-trade agreement in U.S. history.
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Mr. Trump doesn't like the North American Free Trade Agreement and never has.
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But negotiations were expected to result in an EU-UK free-trade deal.
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He proposed sending troops to secure the Mexican border and criticized free trade.
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We cannot favor competition over cooperation, protectionism over free trade, authoritarism over democracy.
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He has set his sights on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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Clinton's past support for free-trade agreements, though, that has most antagonized labor.
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We've got the Japan Europe free trade deal that's still being hammered out.
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Theresa May goes big on free trade but fails to mention international students.
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He has threatened to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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I am told he is bringing a very important free trade offer. Okay.
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Even Britain, the world's first great champion of free trade, started off protectionist.
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That is the nature of free trade: Both parties to the transaction benefit.
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S. Free Trade Agreement with some relatively minor revisions is certainly good news.
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Macron, EU officials said, believed in free trade but wanted to tread carefully.
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Compare this with those free-trade ads, which serve no clear political purpose.
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He opposed the North American Free Trade Agreement, which was approved in 1993.
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On average everyone ends up wealthier with free trade — better allocation of resources.
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Cutting taxes on the rich is a fundamental G.O.P. principle; free trade isn't.
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One of his first votes was against the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Yet during both nights of the second Democratic debate, free trade was condemned.
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Trump's new tariffs are a sign that the free trade wing is losing.
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The United States and Canada inked a bilateral free trade deal in 219.
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The protests underscore growing, if scattered, opposition to free trade deals like NAFTA.
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Now retired, she is ready to see the Democratic Party embrace free trade.
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And Bloomberg Opinion's Ramesh Ponnuru argues that Mr. Trump doesn't want free trade.
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Another would have pulled the country from the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Economists since Adam Smith have understood that free trade is the best policy.
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Boris Johnson criticises "protectionists" in the Trump administration for hurting global free trade.
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Consider his omnipresent pledge to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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Alliance members are among the keenest proponents of free trade in the Americas.
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Hernández also focused on free trade deals, which Trump has vowed to renegotiate.
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Wakanda is listed as a US free trade partner on the USDA website??
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Free trade creates shocks and challenges to any economy, which are cruelly concentrated.
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Free Marketeers and Anti-Elites Free trade is a priority for Free Marketeers.
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"It starts with free trade," said Patrick Minford, an economist at Cardiff University.
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Like all free trade deals, it is designed to remove barriers to commerce.
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Let's start getting some free trade agreements started as soon as we can.
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One of Trump's relatively few consistent positions is his opposition to free trade.
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U.S. consumers enjoy cheaper goods due to free-trade agreements like NAFTA. Sen.
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He previously said the changes made to appease Democrats could stifle free trade.
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He then renegotiated the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico.
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But a protectionist America that opposes free trade is certainly unhelpful to Germany.
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Some conservative groups went further, criticizing the new deal for reducing free trade.
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This does not mean that the benefits of free trade are an illusion.
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The picture is the same for specific free trade agreements (FTAs), including NAFTA.
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The president has frequently bashed the free trade deal with Canada and Mexico.
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Guedes also said free trade negotiations with China will take over two years.
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For his part, Trump has firmly embraced Johnson, Brexit, and U.K. free trade.
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If the pro-free-trade faction prevails, I think we do go higher.
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Despite the Brexit vote, Britain says it remains a defender of free trade.
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S. Free Trade Agreement, if managed well, could improve our bilateral trade ties.
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The North American Free Trade Agreement needs to be mended rather than ended.
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In those days, Republicans were generally unified in their preference for free trade.
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Canada has indicated it would consider a free-trade agreement that excludes Mexico.
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Trump has made railing against free trade deals a centerpiece of his campaign.
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During this time, negotiators will try to reach a new free-trade deal.
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Canada also started a free trade agreement with the European Union last July.
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He has also vowed to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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He championed free trade and open markets, setting the tone for the week.
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Mexico is the third country in the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Such agreements tend to be more limited in scope to free-trade arrangements.
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As a result, this nation operates as a 220006,2202 mile free trade zone.
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Many of Germany's investments are manufacturing plants whose margins depend on free trade.
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Last month, President Donald Trump announced a new U.S.-Mexico free trade pact.
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"They talk much more about free trade than they actually practice," he said.
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Worth noting: Iceland has had a free trade agreement with China since 2014.
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Kaine, however, has been more consistent on free trade: He is for it.
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Trump thinks globalization and free trade has been devastating to the United States.
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He ravaged free trade deals like NAFTA that were largely supported by Republicans.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady said on Monday he will continue to promote the benefits of free trade agreements with President-elect Donald Trump, including those offered under the Obama administration's Asian free trade deal.
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"The UK is the EU's largest market so every incentive exists for the UK to strike a free trade deal with the EU while using its new-found control to also strike free trade deals across the world," it said.
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Citing the advantages of having a free trade agreement with Chile that aims to yield $1 billion in bilateral trade this year, Elitas said Turkey will ask Peru and Ecuador to "speed up" the finalization of bilateral free trade agreements.
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Biden's past support for free trade deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement could prove to be a vulnerability among the blue-collar union workers he's targeting, especially in the upper Midwest, where such pacts have become unpopular.
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The anti-free-trade sentiment has propelled Donald Trump to the front of the GOP pack of presidential candidates, including a pledge to reverse the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico, the two top U.S. trade partners.
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She noted that free trade agreements have "not always been that popular" in Germany, and referred to protests in her own country relating to free trade pacts that the European Union has either signed with foreign partners or wants to sign.
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"He is a true believer in free trade and the benefits free trade brings to our economy," Senator Orrin Hatch, a Republican, said in a speech in July 2017, speaking about Eissenstat as he was headed to the White House.
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During his three terms in Congress before becoming Trump's CIA director in 2017, Pompeo voted in support of various pieces of free-trade legislation, including the Free Trade Agreement with Korea and the Trade Promotion Agreement with Colombia and Panama.
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"We are in favor of free trade...as long as overcapacity is harming fair trade it's very difficult to do free trade," Jyrki Katainen, EU Commission vice-president for jobs, growth, investment and competitiveness, said at an event in Hong Kong.
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Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has backed away from free trade deals like NAFTA and President Barack Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership, but Republican nominee Donald Trump seems to have tapped into America's ambivalence on free trade by pushing two seemingly contradictory ideas.
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The largest free trade area in the world, both by area and by population, will formally come into effect on May 30, now that Gambia has become the 22nd country to ratify the Africa Continental Free Trade Area, or AfCFTA.
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"It is important for us to wave the flag of free trade in response to global moves toward protectionism by quickly concluding the free trade agreement with Europe," Abe told ministers at a meeting on Tuesday about the EU negotiations.
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Iran has compiled a list of 200 items to trade with the EEU, according to Press TV. If a free trade pact were signed, Iran would grant EEU members preferential tariffs for three years before launching free trade, Vaezi said.
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"It is important for us to wave the flag of free trade in response to global moves toward protectionism by quickly concluding the free trade agreement with Europe," Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told ministers at a meeting on Tuesday.
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Clinton's past support for the North American Free Trade Agreement and saying it had caused "carnage" for American workers, he signaled he would run to her left on free trade and upend the decades-long bipartisan consensus on the issue.
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INTERLAKEN, Switzerland, May 24 (Reuters) - Britain can forge a "fantastic free trade relationship" with Europe after it quits the European Union, but can also be a champion for global free trade, lawmaker and Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson said on Friday.
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"As it stands the public has been kept in the dark as to the administration's specific intentions regarding the renegotiation of a free trade agreement that is second only to NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement] in size," the senators wrote.
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If the governor of Hong Kong, who claimed that "Jesus Christ is free trade, and free trade is Jesus Christ," was an extreme case, there was nothing "free" about the monstrous way China was forced to buy opium by the British.
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Together, the European Union and Japan would constitute a trading bloc of a size to rival that created by the North American Free Trade Agreement, presently the world's biggest free trade zone (and one that Mr. Trump wants to renegotiate).
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This week, African leaders are meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, to discuss the African Continental Free Trade Area, an agreement made this year that sets the stage for the creation of the largest free-trade area in the world.
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Professor Bliss was among a small minority of Canadian intellectuals who favored the talks that led to a free-trade agreement between the United States and Canada in 1988, a forerunner of the North American Free Trade Agreement, signed in 1993.
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"It makes people in the United States who have not stood up to support free trade much more anxious to do so now that they see the possible consequences of the benefits of free trade being taken away," he added.
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She also spoke at a time when free-trade deals are increasingly unpopular, particularly among the people she was accusing the crowd in Davos of ignoring, and with President-elect Donald J. Trump talking of protectionism and criticizing free-trade pacts.
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That's partly because Canada and Mexico have more free trade agreements with other nations that can sustain them: Both countries have free trade deals with the European Union, and Mexico has one with Japan, with which Canada is also currently negotiating.
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They want Brexit to be based on a Canada-style free-trade deal instead.
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Trudeau is a liberal who champions free trade and has welcomed 40,000 Syrian refugees.
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NORTH AMERICA (JUNE 27TH) United States Free trade is popular and has benefited America.
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Yet is it right for both parties to assume that Britons want free trade?
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But channeling anger at free trade is like biting the hand that feeds you.
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"The free trade agreement is the first step towards an economic union," he said.
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Writing in Caixin, Hammond signaled what he called "globalized Britain's" support for free trade.
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That runs counter to the decades-long tradition of Republicans supporting free trade deals.
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Mr Trudeau had hoped to start talks on a free-trade agreement with China.
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"We are, of course, in favor of free trade," CEO Harald Krüger told reporters.
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To be clear, this job loss was not caused by free trade agreements alone.
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Potentially at stake: free trade between the two countries, and Peru's already precarious economy.
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Standing up for Australia, talking counter terrorism, free trade, energy security & economic prosperity pic.twitter.
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Abe was expected to sign a free trade pact with EU while in Europe.
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The leader of the free world had just declared his opposition to free trade.
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The provision effectively gives Washington veto power over any free trade deal with China.
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He said he was an advocate of free trade, but not at any cost.
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And, at the end of the day, he would love to see free trade.
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The protectionist and free-trade sides of the Trump administration are once again clashing.
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I believe strongly in free trade but it also has to be FAIR TRADE.
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Unlike China, Japan has refrained from retaliating against Mr Trump's assaults on free trade.
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Why would a country that embraces free trade erect protectionist walls around this sector?
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These days free-trade deals take years to negotiate and ratify in national parliaments.
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And Brexiteers are right that everybody has an interest in some free-trade deal.
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Mr Trump is at his most detailed when outlining his suspicion of free trade.
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Mr Trump has trashed free trade, liberal immigration rules and other corporate non-negotiables.
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USTR also called out free trade zones as places where counterfeiting can be rampant.
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And award-winning MIT economist, David Autor, dissects the negative consequences of free trade
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These committees have been involved in negotiating the new free trade agreement with Mexico.
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This is another type of enhanced free-trade area, though for a different reason.
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Third are replacements for the EU's existing free-trade pacts with some 53 countries.
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Talks to revamp the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are in full swing.
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But it's NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, that is Brown's signature issue.
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He said he favored "free" trade but some agreements might need to be renegotiated.
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Nations that are pro free trade are on (the verge) of starting trade war.
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As a political movement, it began as a revolt against restrictions on free trade.
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And conservative commentators have exposed his apostasy on issues like free trade and entitlements.
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A third of the Conservative Party supported free trade and two-thirds opposed it.
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Mr Trump, meanwhile, had been considering cancelling America's free-trade agreement with South Korea.
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Soon afterwards, he ordered South Korea to renegotiate its free-trade agreement with America.
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"Retaliation against the U.S. trade measures could destroy the free-trade system," Seko said.
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Instead of the free trade agreements he denounces, Melenchon advocates alternative forms of cooperation.
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Historically, the Republican Party has been a reliable and proud advocate for free trade.
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Eurosceptic leaders said he would offer Britain a free trade deal once it left.
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Then you are no less a proponent of free trade than you were before?
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Vietnam's enthusiasm for free-trade deals has made it especially alluring to foreign investors.
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The full-blown free trade agreement that London wants will take considerably longer, however.
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"I used to be all for free trade and globalisation," says an ostensible globalist.
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S. economic relations just as efforts to reach a transatlantic free trade pact unravel .
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The customs union has disadvantages besides making free-trade deals with third countries harder.
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On Saturday, Trump threatened to withdraw from a free trade deal with South Korea.
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Officials from America, Mexico and Canada began renegotiating the North American Free-Trade Agreement.
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Donald Trump bludgeoned Canada (and Mexico) into renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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The annual meeting is typically marked by near consensus on issues like free trade.
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This was Obama -- the Obama administration negotiating with Europe for a free trade deal.
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Free trade requires fair trade, based on a common set of mutually beneficial rules.
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The economic impact of free trade goes well beyond one company or one industry.
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According to the Business Roundtable, free trade supports 39.8 million jobs across the nation.
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That's why it's so critical that we enact free-trade agreements, like the TPP.
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Farage said he hopes the countries would develop a free trade deal between them.
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Trump has also thrown the North America Free Trade Agreement with Mexico into question.
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Others broadly questioned whether free-trade agreements truly serve the interests of American farmers.
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Major questions also loom over the fate of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Ardern said she also anticipated talks around an upgrade to the free trade agreement.
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Currently it includes 22 EU countries, plus four European Free Trade Association member states.
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Another week, another meeting with a world leader extolling the virtues of free trade.
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Israel is also in talks for free trade agreements with Vietnam and South Korea.
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In this context, what are the prospects for a U.S.-Japan free trade agreement?
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That would be the beginning of upholding the true system of multilateral free trade.
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Trump threatened during his campaign to tear up a free trade deal with Mexico.
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"I do not believe in unfettered free trade," Sanders explained in a February debate.
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She has already announced that she will negotiate a free-trade pact with Japan.
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Bernie Sanders proudly recalls his unwavering opposition to free-trade agreements, past and current.
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Missing from the German debate is any sense of the advantages of free trade.
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Yet proponents of globalism continue to assert that "free trade" is an overwhelming good.
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Bernie Sanders on the left has helped popularize skepticism of multilateral free trade deals.
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"Free trade is a myth," stated George Meany, onetime president of the AFL-CIO.
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Similarly, some free-trade Democrats suggest that Hillary Clinton's protectionist stance is merely rhetoric.
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Companies that depend on free trade with the EU will continue to face uncertainty.
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He also told reporters that the global community should work to maintain free trade.
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One of the best ways to do this is through free trade agreements (FTAs).
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Romania sees little gain in a free-trade deal that lets Britain block immigration.
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Trump clinched the Republican Party's nomination in part on an anti-free trade platform.
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However, mounting evidence suggests that the gains from free trade are not shared equally.
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We need to fundamentally reject our "free trade" policies and move to fair trade.
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They judge globalization as an unmitigated disaster and loathe the idea of free trade.
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I don't think you are qualified if you supported the Panama free trade agreement.
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In 2009 more Republicans than Democrats were generally in favour of free-trade agreements.
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But let's just say we're in the normal process of a free trade negotiation.
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Trump also went after the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico.
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Free-trade agreements can make a big difference in Middle Eastern countries hosting Syrians.
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It also would inhibit the UK's ability to sign its own free trade deals.
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Sanders yanked her significantly to the left, even on no-brainers like free trade.
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Some of the positives are familiar: Free trade means cheaper consumer goods for everyone.
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But he strongly defended the economic benefit of free-trade deals to Ohio's economy.
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Varadkar reiterated that Ireland would be Britain's biggest supporter in those free trade talks.
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A flood of cheap goods, the product of free trade agreements, eviscerates local manufacturers.
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All non-free-trade agreement exports are required to attain a public interest determination.
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When you're in the top layer you see why free trade is so good.
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Free trade does not work when one country refuses to abide by the rules.
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Gail: The Bernie crowd was disturbed that Kaine seemed so enthusiastic about free trade.
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He promised to rip up all current free-trade agreements and negotiate better ones.
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"He has the view that free trade is good and beneficial," Mr. Savage said.
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Mere tariff-cutting, as we now know, does not provide a free-trade nirvana.
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Past free trade agreements with tropical countries have attempted to address the deforestation crisis.
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The evidence was soon being parsed more carefully than her record on free trade.
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I would argue that it is wrong even to call their doctrine free trade.
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It was once the party of free trade, low deficits and support for immigration.
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By rejecting free-trade deals, he could bolster Republican support among white union workers.
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How do we expand free trade and cushion our workers hurt from the effects?
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They did not care if free trade provided them with cheaper socks and cellphones.
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But the United States and China are not even considering a free trade agreement.
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Over all, nearly 60 percent of Democratic voters thought free-trade agreements, which Mrs.
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But we should be cautious in our claims about the virtues of free trade.
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The Republican Establishment was among the staunchest backers of big business and free trade.
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Warren had also been a prominent opponent of Obama's major Asian free trade agreement.
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Before Trump, Republicans could be counted on to trumpet the benefits for free trade.
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Kevin Brady, President Trump — with VP Pence at his side — discussed free trade changes:
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Brexit also deprives the EU of one of its most outspoken free trade advocates.
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He is a Republican presidential candidate running against free trade and, effectively, free markets.
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Trump has blamed the country's declining industrial sector on poorly negotiated free trade agreements.
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"No one at the meeting remarked that they were against free trade," he added.
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The DOE authorized exports from the plant to free trade agreement countries in September.
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S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) into the basket of unfair deals, alongside NAFTA.
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Free-trade Republicans have every right to reject the Trumpian alternative to that consensus.
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The downside of free trade is concentrated onto a relatively small group of people.
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But it does not undermine the conclusion that free trade raises average living standards.
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REUTERS POLL: EU-UK FREE TRADE AGREEMENT IS MOST LIKELY EVENTUAL OUTCOME OF BREXIT
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A longtime proponent of free trade, he believed the decision could jeopardize economic growth.
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But leaders at the G-20 summit meeting continued to push for free trade.
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Washington is linking the exemptions to renegotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Free trade is one of the best tools we have for fighting extreme poverty.
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Until Mr. Trump, the Republican Party was committed, at least philosophically, to free trade.
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For years he had been skeptical about Nafta and free trade agreements in general.
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"Yeah, we're free traders, yeah, they passed a free trade deal," Mr. Bannon said.
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He brings a "fair trade," not free trade, attitude to trade relationships and agreements.
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Japan and the European Union plan to sign their free-trade agreement in July.
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Efforts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement have stalled in bitter disagreement.
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Not so long ago this was the party of Paul Ryan and free trade.
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There are proponents of free trade throughout the economy and across the political spectrum.
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When the administration first proposed the sunset provision, the free trade establishment was aghast.
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The North American Free Trade Agreement was enacted on the day the uprising started.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the year of Canada's "free trade" election.
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G.B.T. stances, but they are experiencing increasing opposition to their support for free trade.
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Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), perhaps the most outspoken advocate for free trade in Congress.
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Mr Johnson's aims instead at a more basic free-trade deal similar to Canada's.
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Above all, they vehemently oppose free trade, an issue that divides the Freedom Caucus.
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This would be impacted negatively if he clamps down on outsourcing and free trade.
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But Mr. Trump's broader circle of advisers is dominated by proponents of free trade.
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Participants at Davos have historically espoused the benefits of free trade and global engagement.
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It would replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, which Trump has repeatedly denigrated.
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Bush, who advocates free trade, promoted multilateral and bilateral trade deals during his presidency.
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It backs the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, known as Nafta.
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Curiously, her tough talk on free trade has led to comparisons with Donald Trump.
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"We've much more to gain from free trade than to lose," Mr. Varadkar said.
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This begins today at the outset of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiations.
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And then support for free trade, something that neither Clinton or Trump are supporting.
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African free trade agreements are being accelerating by leaders committed to Pan-African integration.
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The senator favors policies surrounding small government and supports free trade and immigration reform.
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As a candidate, he repeatedly promised to update the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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This problem already exists, but a free trade area would potentially make it worse.
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S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) was approved in 2011 and implemented in 85033.
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Japan has emerged as a perhaps-unexpected defender of free trade in recent months.
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They have access to a better life because of free trade and international cooperation.
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President Trump's North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiation has just finished round five.
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Both were bold moves, particularly given that President Reagan at times espoused free trade.
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The Party stands for lower taxes, less government, deregulation, free trade, and austere budgets.
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The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement replaces the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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He advocated free trade and was a member of the centrist New Democrat Coalition.
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Just a year ago, the two countries entered into their own free trade agreement.
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Thatcher opposed sanctions on the basis of protecting free trade, according to The Guardian.
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Congress should pass the revised North American Free Trade Agreement, despite its considerable shortcomings.
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The blockchain is a 'Don't trust, prove it' solution to the free trade issue.
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Kudlow is a proponent of free trade and generally does not advocate for tariffs.
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Last month in Davos, German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivered a speech defending free trade.
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SARA EISEN: You've also-- advocated heavily for free trade and fair trade, open trade.
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American businesses need "free" trade that allows the free flow of goods across borders.
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British and EU negotiators will begin talks over a free trade deal next month.
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How can Marx's ideas inform our current debates about globalization, free trade, and neoliberalism?
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And in late September its broad free-trade pact with Europe clicked into action.
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Or take the issue of free trade: Typically conservatives are in favor of it.
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Traditional free trade agreements aim to lower trade barriers between the countries signing them.
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" Sanders: "I believe in trade, but I do not believe in unfettered free trade.
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Trump's economic populism — his attacks on elites and free trade agreements — must have resonated.
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"The G20 will likely continue calling on the importance of free trade," Kuroda said.
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Schwab negotiated major portions of free trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama.
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