Posted on 06/19/2004 10:29:00 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
BEIJING (AFP) - US Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans arrived in the ancient capital of Xian for a week-long visit to China, officials said, where he is expected to champion fair trade and seek ways to lower a ballooning trade deficit with the rising Asian nation.
During an 11-day, three-nation trip, Evans will also visit the northeastern city of Harbin and hold formal talks in Beijing before heading on to the June 24 US-EU summit in Ireland and a bilateral trip to Mexico, US officials said.
On Sunday, he is expected to meet with Shaanxi provincial Governor Jin Zhibang, US officials said.
"We are going to continue to look American workers in the eye, all across this country, and tell them we are going to be tough when it comes to enforcing our trade laws and maintaining a level playing field with the rest of the world," Evans said before departing Washington.
"We are also working to open Chinese markets to more American exports. As one of the leading exporters of manufactured goods, it is in China's best interest to eliminate barriers to market access for United States companies."
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First it was Vicente complaining about outsourcing to China. Now we have US Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, our President and our Commerce Secretary visiting next week.
where he is expected to champion fair trade
Thankyou Mr. Evans. Is this Administration finally opening up it's eyes and smelling the destruction all across America? Most likely it's merely rhetoric. I'd love to vote for Bush but am supporting another Conservative who will act on jobs for Americans and the illegal invasion. He'd have to do more than talk tho..I've heard it all before.
Who you voting for?
Is this comment to be read as positive? Kind off a rude dig, eh?
It was my understanding that the first quarter trade deficit this year was something close to $145 billion dollars. This equates to just less than $0.6 trillion dollars per year.
It had been my thought that folks would begin to see the light at around $250 to $300 billion dollars per year. Now we're approaching double that figure and very few people have a problem with the trade deficit at all. The American public give the term sheeple the creedence it deserves.
Our nation is become a satellite of Mexico. We still allow immigration from terrorist states. Our ports and border crossing points allow 99.5% of our import containers to pass unchecked. We are soon to begin allowing Mexican trucks to enter our nation unchecked at the border, free to traverse the nation at will.
Yakov Smirnov said it best. "America! What a country."
The time to insist on fair trade is NOT after you have signed a trade agreement or sponsored a nation into the WTO. The bargaining power is gone by then.
What difference does that make? Is it not possible to have differences with Bush's policies and still hold your nose and vote for him?
That's nice. Maybe the Chinese will give us enough concessions so that we can go back to complaining about cheap foreign steel somewhere else. And the Chinese can go back to imprisoning dissidents and plotting against Taiwan. Helps to have ones priorities straight, especially in an election year.
Sorry. My mistake. I am getting so used to getting flamed for criticizing Bush's policies on trade that I just assume the least bit of criticism invites derision.
No ptoblem. Same situation here.
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