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But to make such changes, the Bush administration trade team would have to return to the negotiating table with the Central American nations involved.
It also involves greater intelligence sharing aimed at cracking down on the flow of money and weapons into Mexico that helps fuel the drug trade, senior administration officials said.
In pitching the very same bilateral trade agreements two and three years ago that the business community is pitching today, then-USTR Susan Schwab liked to remind Congress that the United States had an aggregate trade surplus with the countries with whom the Bush administration had concluded free trade agreements, as though that were the appropriate success metric.
Together with the Federal Trade Commission, the administration pushed Congress for online privacy legislation earlier this year.
Two academics from the University of Wisconsin, together with CareerCast staffers, rate each of 200 jobs according to five different core criteria, using data from the BLS, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and trade associations like the American Psychiatric Association.
U.S. and South Korean negotiators agreed Friday to a free-trade deal that the Obama administration hopes will increase American exports by billions of dollars annually and give momentum to a broader free-trade agenda.
With the Democrats' union constituencies skeptical of free trade, and the public so hostile, the Obama administration hasn't made fostering free trade or changing Americans minds about it as high a priority as President Bill Clinton did.
In fact, during the 8 years of the Bush administration, US trade with Iran actually expanded.
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The Obama administration is casting trade-secret theft as a major threat to both economic and national security.
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We have CAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement, which the administration would like to see working better.
The U.S. had indicated interest in joining the bloc last year but later put negotiations on hold as the Obama administration reviewed its trade policies.
The repercussions of this affair are likely to poison European-American trade relations and expose the administration to accusations of corporate welfare for America's aerospace national champion.
While he offered no detailed answer, other than to suggest finding ways of pricing drugs overseas based on a nation's income, his question should be taken to heart by the Administration's trade policymakers.
Setting specific import goals was a hallmark of the Clinton administration's early trade strategy.
Does the administration favor fines or trade retaliation for countries that are engaged in this sort of thing?
The administration also inked a trade deal with Panama earlier this week, but that one seems relatively safe from the congressional guillotine.
MFN, the administration has argued that trade would foster Chinese growth, and that growth would ultimately improve the lot of ordinary Chinese.
The business community favors swift passage of the three pending trade deals, and the Obama administration is paying close attention to what business groups are saying these days.
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The Obama administration has waived several trade sanctions against Damascus.
Its importance was underscored earlier this month when the administration concluded a free trade agreement with South Korea at the eleventh hour, making the deal eligible for fast-track approval.
The Bush administration has four free trade agreements pending in Congress right now, and it is not likely to send any more to the Hill because lawmakers did not renew the president's fast-track authority to negotiate trade deals.
Obviously our Trade Representative testified on the House side today, saying that the administration would soon send up the language around the South Korea free trade agreement and intensify our engagement to address both Colombia and Panama in hopes that those negotiations could be concluded this year and agreements could then be sent to Congress thereafter.
Craig Van Grasstek, an expert on American trade politics, thinks Republicans in Congress may try to exploit the administration's discomfort and the Democrats' divisions by tying a big trade bill to the China vote.
Congress has before it three administration-negotiated free-trade agreements, with Panama, Colombia and South Korea.
Does the administration plan to renegotiate those trade accords before sending them to the Hill?
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But the administration wants to see more trade move to rail and sea and off the roads.
In addition to the Colombia deal, the administration has already negotiated free trade agreements with Korea and Panama.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is also happy that the administration has finalized the pending trade deal with Korea.
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