Mr Clinton has yet to rally popular support for freer trade, let alone define America's agenda.
The next round should be wide-ranging, so as to mobilise business support for freer trade.
Permit freer trade in skilled labor (and pathways for unskilled for that matter): Bright foreign Ph.
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The benefit of free or freer trade is a higher standard of living in trading nations.
It misses out trade's effects on productivity and the benefits of freer trade in services.
Its leaders are split on whether freer trade would help its industry, says Mr Rahr.
One way of getting round these political problems is to compensate the losers from freer trade.
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But it needs freer trade, fiscal responsibility and greater respect for the rule of law.
As one of the main beneficiaries of freer trade, Asia would be a big loser from that.
Free trade, or freer trade, is one of those battles we have to win over and over.
Even so, there is good reason to believe that freer trade and faster growth generally go together.
But the biggest problem is now America, which is no longer leading the drive for freer trade.
They dare not antagonise their supporters in the bazaars with a programme of privatisation, deregulation and freer trade.
It is good that the countries are at least talking about freer trade.
For example, freer trade does not necessarily mean faster growth all the time.
None of this, however, has stopped freer trade from becoming a political problem.
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The time-tested path to recovery is through sounder money, lower tax rates, freer trade and tighter restraints on government expansion.
And since the surest form of defence is attack, a broad new push towards freer trade is a must too.
Modern economics also emphasises the importance of dynamic gains, arising especially from the economies of scale that freer trade makes possible.
The negotiations will have to unravel a thicket of issues that have been intractable for ages, and that impede freer trade.
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Many Brazilians blame freer trade for lost jobs: after opening up its economy in the early 1990s, Brazil suffered big trade deficits.
Pinning down the link between freer trade and growth is not easy.
Freer trade will not provide a quick fix for today's recession, but it can help to lay firmer foundations for future economic growth.
American officials in Geneva may be talking about freer trade in agriculture, but Washington politicians are sending American farmers exactly the opposite message.
Italians may be less enthusiastic about some of the letter's other demands, notably for freer trade (Italy has often been a loser in globalisation).
Mr Harl thinks the Chinese will also use freer trade to acquire more advanced technology, so that they can harvest bigger and better crops.
And it should look again at the domestic policies that support freer trade: notably, measures to assist workers whose jobs are displaced by import competition.
Freer trade improves productive efficiency and offers consumers better choices, and in the long run these gains are much larger than any effects on employment.
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Pakistan, for instance, will benefit hugely from freer trade in textiles.
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