Posted on 07/07/2014 12:48:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The U.S. is looking for concessions from China to kick start international negotiations on liberalizing trade in high-technology products. […]
Negotiations to update the 1996 agreement have been snared by China’s desire to protect dozens of new product categories. Some 70 countries participate in the agreement, accounting for much of global trade in that sector. …
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Funny that some of our more leftist folks on here claim “we don’t have free trade with China”....and that enforcing common-sense American protection is “isolatonism and protectionism”
Looks like Communist China practices protectionism against the USA
Of course...the way the US should handle this would be to raise the tariffs on Communist China.
Obama and his fellow traveler free traders won’t do it
How long will it take the Chinese to stop laughing at this suggestion?
You mean like we take their Huawei communications gear with it’s trapdoor software, and they take our NSA monitored Cisco gear?
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