Best Way to Change Trade Policy on China: Vote NO on CAFTA

and not be used as disguised barriers to trade.

You mean like these?

"A European Union (EU) ban, in place since 1989, on imports of meat products from animals treated with growth-promoting hormones, which has effectively blocked U.S. meat (mainly beef) exports valued at about $100 million annually. A WTO panel recently ruled in favor of the United States, but the EU is appealing;

An EU prohibition this year against poultry meat imports from the United States (valued at $50 million annually), because the EU will not recognize as safe the U.S. processors' system for washing carcasses in chlorinated water. In retaliation, the United States banned some $1 million in EU poultry product imports;

Korean border clearance procedures that can delay imported perishable products for several weeks, compared with several days elsewhere in Asia. These include a rule that 100% of imported agricultural products be inspected and tested rather than sampled randomly, and a requirement that every shipment of imported fresh produce be unpacked, sorted, and repacked to remove any spoiled product; An EU decision, effective November 1, 1997, that human foods must be labeled to indicate whether they were produced from genetically modified corn and soybeans."

Your underlined quote refers to nations putting up additional protectionist policies. Nothing more. You're seeing things that just are not there.

And this is where state and local laws are attacked all the time by WTO members.

Examples?

Not to mention politicians who put global socialism above their American consitutents

You mean Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Charlie Rangel, John Conyers et al? They're all socialists who are against CAFTA and want to give more power to the U.N.

pumping billions of $$$ into the Chinese war machine began with the WTO. China now menaces the United States because of "free trade". By pumping dollars into countries like Nicaragua, we will keep despots in power, not the other way around. They need to clean up their governments first, before they get rewarded with overly generous trade agreemnts. Otherwise we are just reinforcing the bad stuff.

In some cases "free trade" is actually pushing South American countries into communism. Bolivia for one, Chile is teetering on the brink.

So China it is then. 'Cause you showed no alternative. To each his/her own. I would choose those countries any day over China. And again, the way things are going, we will soon be forced to open our markets to Africa, why not to our immediate neighbors? And you did not address other aspects I have brought up. I bought a music system recently made in Malasia. No great friend of ours either. And are we not pushing Chile and other countries into the lap of Chavezes and Castros by playing strict but fair daddy with them.

Cause you showed no alternative

Yes there is an alternative. Tariffs.

You are falling into the trap set up by the globalists, the classic communist technique of creating a crisis, with the solution being another implacable step toward the destruction of the United States. China is the crisis( created by the "free trader" globalists in our government against the will of the American people) the solution, to give up our sovereignty to a supranational trade organization and the creation of a socialist trading bloc modeled in the European Union. Great choice /sarcasm.

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