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Article: Colombia: Time to trade.(COMMENTARY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- November 4, 2007
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Byline: Barbara Bowie-Whitman, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Now that Congress has acted wisely on Peru, the United States has a chance to gain even more by approving another two trade agreements in this hemisphere. These pacts, with Colombia and Panama are winners for the U.S. economy and also would help our trading partners. We gain a greater export boost than each of the partners, while they each gain a larger stimulus to their gross domestic product (GDP), given the relative sizes of our economies.
No U.S. jobs are threatened; our economy has already adjusted to the duty-free import of goods from these two countries under current trade preference ...