Posts tagged…Nafta
Anti-NAFTA Congressman for U.S. Trade Rep?
Thu, Dec 04 2008An experienced Member of the Ways and Means trade subcommittee, another Californian lawyer (a profession that has not distinguished itself in the Trade Representative's office, except by a take-no-prisoners advocacy), Xavier Becerra sounds pretty much what Obama promised during his campaign:
"Becerra did originally support NAFTA, but he has apologized for this and worked to oppose CAFTA, giving…
Read more…Obama re-designs his message on trade
Sat, Jun 21 2008If your theory is that Obama's aggressive stance on trade agreements including NAFTA and MFN for China was a tactic designed to un-hinge the Clinton-Labor axis in the competition for the Democrat nomination, this partial recantation on NAFTA will probably leave you feeling you read him right. But it leaves many questions about his policies hanging in the air.
Obama would have opposed NAFTA, CAFTA and China’s membership of WTO
Sun, Apr 06 2008Analysts who criticized Obama's trade policies as protectionist and silly were themselves attacked for taking mere campaign rhetoric too seriously. Jagdish Bhagwati in the FT offered five reasons to be reassured about Obama's trade credentials. But it's impossible to be sanguine about the remarks in this speech to the AFL-CIO in Pennsylvania. If he means them we should be worried by his bizarre,…
Obama: don’t tread on me
Mon, Feb 25 2008We can't keep passing unfair trade deals like NAFTA that put special interests over workers' interests (Barack Obama, emphasis added)
Obama's not going to let Mexico or Canada swindle the USA into greater specialization (or wealth) in the North American industrial landscape! He has a plan for preventing change as well as ... um, the other one
I didn't just start criticizing unfair trade deals…