[1rudeboy]

You don't get it, do you? Colombian goods enter the U.S. duty-free under the Andean Trade Preference Act. Our goods are hit with tariffs. If you oppose the Colombian FTA, then you are in favor of the current system, and do not wish to see the tariffs on U.S. goods removed.

And if you are in favor of raising tariffs on Colombian goods, then you are in fact arguing that the government knows how to spend your money better than yourself. There can be no other explanation why you so freely are willing to hand it over.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Colombian goods enter the U.S. duty-free under the Andean Trade Preference Act. Our goods are hit with tariffs.

Bares repeating.

Colombia's legal exports to the US are mostly oil, leather goods and flowers. Colombia's imports from the US are mostly manufactured goods, computer/communications equipment and medical equipment.

I know some people would like to fight global warming by raising the price of oil but other than the flower growers and leather smiths, how exactly does the current system benefit American workers?

[wideawake]

1rudeboy, you're having a non-debate with Marxist clowns who have no idea how basic economics works, let alone any specific knowledge of the structure of the US employment market or the existing trade relationship between the US and Colombia.

They've no conception of what this article even means and are not prepared to engage in a rational conversation about it.

I'm just waiting for the first moronic comment that it is somehow "unconstitutional" for the President to go ahead without the permission of the protectionist neo-Leninists in the House.