Obama Pushes 4 FREE trade with Panama & Colombia!

[LastLion]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/motori...52268E20090303

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will work with Congress to move forward on long-stalled free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Tuesday.
"What you can expect is the president and the administration will work carefully with the Congress to find a way to move forward on those important agreements," Geithner told the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee.
Obama opposed both the South Korean and Colombian agreements during last year's election campaign. Since taking office, he has inched toward embracing the deals.
The U.S. Trade Representative's office, in its annual trade agenda report on Monday, said the Obama administration hoped to win approval of a free trade pact with Panama "relatively quickly" and to establish "benchmarks" for moving forward on the Colombia and South Korean agreements.
"It's so important to our country that we sustain a commitment not just to keep our markets open, but that we can find new trade agreements that can benefit American businesses and the American worker," Geithner told the House panel.
The USTR report did not detail what benchmarks would be set for progress on the Colombia and South Korea pacts.
Obama said last year he wanted to see a reduction in violence against trade unionists in Colombia and to renegotiate provisions of the South Korea trade agreement that he said were bad for U.S. automakers and other manufacturers.

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[Tim413]

LastLion thanks for the info!!!!!!!! I hope the US keeps it's promises. Tim

[TheWix]

Nice link, LL. I hope it's fair trade and not free trade !!!!!

[jezzicaz789]

Thanks you for the post.
Hi guys, Im a newbie. Nice to join this forum.

[GrizGator]

Let's hope so. It's about time someone in the party started to change their tune about that. Should have been handled two years ago.