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Article: That darn GATT Politics of world trade makes strange bedfellows
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 27, 1994
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Michael Rezendes is the Globe's Focus writer.
The fact that so many care so little about the General Agreement
on Tariffs and Trade attests to the considerable distance Americans
have traveled from protectionism to free trade during the last half
century. Although protectionism is the passion of Ross Perot, and is
likely to become a political football in the 1996 presidential
contests, bipartisan support for opening international markets has
been building steadily since the end of World War II.
It wasn't always so. Tariffs, quotas and other barriers to trade
have played a calamitous role in many of the most disputatious events
in US history, dating to the earliest days of the Republic.
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