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The price of free trade
The Sacramento Bee ^
| April 14, 2002
| George F. Will
Posted on 04/14/2002 9:56:17 PM PDT by greydog
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:35:05 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States has asked for and received extraordinary help from Pakistan in the war on terrorism. Now Pakistan has asked for something from the United States.
Pakistan (per capita income: $470) has asked this mighty republic (per capita income: $26,503), which spans a continent and bestrides the globe like a colossus, to remove the quotas on imports of Pakistani pillows and sheets. It also asked the United States to suspend textile tariffs until 2004, and permit 50 percent increases in quotas for pajamas, towels, underwear and some other apparel.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: elections; freetrade; southasialist; tariffs
George is on the mark again.
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posted on
04/14/2002 9:56:17 PM PDT
by
greydog
To: greydog
Yes!
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posted on
04/14/2002 10:16:42 PM PDT
by
Kay
To: *SouthAsia_list;*"Free" Trade
To: greydog
Great article.
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posted on
04/14/2002 10:25:12 PM PDT
by
weikel
To: greydog
I can't wait to see the posts trying to convince everyone of the absolute strategic necessity of a strong U.S. pillowcase industry.
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posted on
04/14/2002 10:32:00 PM PDT
by
timm22
To: timm22
How unpatriotic of you! Don't you realize that America is at war? How can you support the terrorist Pakistanis, flooding us with their cheap pajamas, while honest American workers lose their jobs? Without our textile industry, who will make our military uniforms? The Pakistanis! And if they decide to impose a textile embargo, we won't be able to clothe our brave men and women soldiers and won't be able to execute the war on terrorists. So now you see how ignorant your remark was. </unnecessarily extreme sarcasm OFF>
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posted on
04/15/2002 12:11:15 AM PDT
by
billybudd
To: greydog
George is on the mark again.George Will is just another myopic shill for the global corporate Taliban.
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