Article: COMMERCE SECRETARY CARLOS GUTIERREZCOMMERCE SECRETARY CARLOS GUTIERREZ HOLDS A NEWS BRIEFING REGARDING THE 2008 AMERICAS COMPETITIVENESS FORUM

Article: Game, Set, and Match for Mr. Ricardo? The Surprising Comeback of Protectionism in the Era of Globalizing Free Trade.
Journal of Economic Issues;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......economic globalization is increasing free trade. Since Adam Smith [1776] and David Ricardo [1817] armed advocates of free trade with the theorem of comparative...policies and proponents of globalized free trade are claiming victory [IMF 1997...

Article: Free Trade and Liberal England: 1846-1946.(Review)
Business History;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......attention lavished by historians on the opponents of free trade from 1880 onwards, the free traders themselves...its contribution to the mid-Victorian ethic of Free Trade was vital. Free trade was turned 'into a popular moral crusade, converting...

Article: SELF-INTEREST DEFEATS PRINCIPLE OF FREE TRADE.(Editorial)(Editorial)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  November 2, 1999 ;     700+ words ......Galles Local View THE U.S. is the global free trade nag. We have led the rhetorical charge...administration, which promoted NAFTA under the free trade banner, are still weaseling out of NAFTA...living up to this already much delayed free trade commitment. This is just one more ...

Article: Free trade is fine -- in the abstract
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  May 7, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Avrum D. Lank Free trade is fine -- in the abstract By AVRUM...striking impression gathered at a forum on free trade at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...to large portions of the population, free trade is about as welcome as a ham sandwich...

Article: The advantage to trade.(Free Trade Today & Free Trade Under Fire)(Book Review)
Ethics & International Affairs;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Free Trade Today, Jagdish Bhagwati (Princeton: Princeton...Press, 2002), 137 pp., $24.95 cloth. Free Trade Under Fire, Douglas A. Irwin (Princeton...the public that critics misunderstand free trade. Strip away the misconceptions, they...

Article: Focus on free trade ; Ever wondered how free trade affects us and the economy? Author spells it out.
Portland Press Herald (Maine);  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Portland Press Herald (Maine) 04-01-2007 Focus on free trade ; Ever wondered how free trade affects us and the economy? Author spells it...Edition: FINAL Section: Audience Column: Q&A Free trade is one of those terms we hear bandied about...

Article: The phony "free trade" lobby: why the so-called "free trade" lobby is pushing a trade agenda that actually reduces free trade and American independence.(TRADE)(Business Roundtable)
The New American;  May 16, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Mention free trade in any public discourse today, and one is likely to come up with such topics as NAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the World Trade Organization...

Article: FREE TRADE - BUT AT WHAT PRICE?
The Boston Globe;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......ITS PROPOSED EXPANSION THROUGH THE FTAA (FREE TRADE ASSOCIATION OF THE AMERICAS) TREATY, FREE TRADE CONTINUES TO BE CONTROVERSIAL. Democratic...negotiations with Brazil last November. Free trade is resisted or criticized not only by US...

Article: NAFTA the nasty no more; Twenty years ago free trade was equated with national suicide. How things change.(INSIGHT)
The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario);  February 7, 2009 ;     700+ words ......others rallied behind the North American Free Trade Agreement for fear that a proposed buy...history of ambivalence toward or fear of free trade with the U.S. It was 21 years ago that...1988 general election was fought over free trade, a policy championed by then-prime minister...

Article: Free Trade Today
Freeman;  March 1, 2004 ;     629 words ...Free Trade Today by Jagdish Bhagwati Princeton University...the general public wider than in the field of free trade. While economists nearly unanimously embrace the idea that free trade increases choices, lowers prices, and raises real...

Article: Is free trade good or bad for U.S.? (Interviews with Robert Lawrence and John Culbertson)
U.S. News & World Report;  September 23, 1985 ;     700+ words ......Brookings Institution Q Mr. Lawrence, is free trade outdated? A By no means. The basic principle...nations--that motivated those advocating free trade under Adam Smith remains valid today...advantage in small cars, which we buy. Q So free trade still benefits the United States by ...

Article: The gospel of free trade: The new Evangelists
Dollars & Sense;  July 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......government regulation of trade, not "free trade," to build their economies. Why shouldn...1990s, the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement marked a new epoch of U.S...into the Americas. Today, the chimes of -free trade" are ringing out even more loudly in...

Article: 'The Mexicans are going to strike.' (impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on Florida farming and textile industries)(includes related article on NAFTA) (Industry Overview)
Florida Trend;  May 1, 1992 ;     700+ words ......textile interests are up in arms over free trade with Mexico. In the long run, NAFTA will benefit Florida. Will free trade between the United States and Mexico...observed in a recent interview, that free trade among nations enhances all nations...

Article: Hillary, Huckabee and trade; It's time for a free-trade debate.(OPED)
The Washington Times;  December 5, 2007 ;     700+ words ......against radical Islam, the efficacy of free trade may be the most important issue pending...end of World War II, the principle of free trade has defined U.S. economic policy - and...product of a long half century of American free-trade policy. Until the 1980s, it was not even...