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Article: Trade strains.(News)
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- RCR Wireless News
- Article date:
- March 10, 2003
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Byline: JEFFREY SILVA
The Bush administration's trade policy continued to show signs of strain last week, the product of a record trade deficit, escalating trade disputes and enforcement challenges that left unresolved could limit wireless gains in overseas markets with growth potential far greater than in a U.S. market where consumer demand is leveling off.
At a hearing last Wednesday, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee and a free-trade proponent, went so far as to say the administration's trade policy lacked direction.
"We have a limited number of trade negotiators. They can only be in one place at one ...