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NAFTA
Opposed
To the Editor:
The North American Free Trade Agreement isn’t about free trade. It will not abolish restrictions on trade in North America, but rather creates more than 30 appointed international committees, councils, working groups, secretariats, and subcommittees to rule on trade matters previously the sole domain of the elected U.S. Congress. In fact, the Clinton Administration’s side agreements would make NAFTA a net inhibitor of trade.
According to U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor’s Aug. 17 Wall Street Journal, NAFTA’s side agreement on the environment would lock in forever all existing federal environmental regulations, no matter how expensive or oppressive: “no county in the agreement can lower its environmental standards - ever.”
It certainly says something about the real intention of many NAFTA
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