“.The Bush administration, having been rebuffed on plans to advance a Free Trade of the Americas Act that would open a free trade market to the tip of South America, now is working on the expansion one nation at a time, according to critics…”
“The Bush administration plan is to get the trade agreement with Peru through Congress first, followed by trade agreements the administration already has negotiated with Panama, Columbia and South Korea.”
Of the four agreements, the Bush administration believes that the deal with Peru will raise the least opposition, paving the way for the other, more controversial, deals, officials said.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58012
Congressional Quarterly confirms this strategy, quoting U.S. Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab as telling reporters the “administration has had, right from the start, a four FTA [free-trade agreement] strategy,” in which deals with the other three agreements would be pushed through Congress as soon as the Peru deal passes.
The Peru free trade agreement moved to center stage this week when the Senate Finance Committee voted to endorse it, making a debate on the floor of the Senate likely soon. The House Ways and Means Committee cleared the Peru trade deal by a Sept. 25 voice vote, setting the stage for debate on the measure on the House floor.
Pobept…..The United States – Peru Trade Promotion Agreement was signed on April 12, 2006.
Lots of thing are worked on, but this comes to the floor for debate soon…
“The Peru free trade agreement moved to center stage this week when the Senate Finance Committee voted to endorse it, making a debate on the floor of the Senate likely soon. The House Ways and Means Committee cleared the Peru trade deal by a Sept. 25 voice vote, setting the stage for debate on the measure on the House floor.”
I don’t believe it’s come to the Senate floor before….Do you???
Roderick…I think Peru is below the Panamanian-Columbian border.
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Pobept K
1 May 2009
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this is old news.
he has been pushing this for the past 7 years.
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Roderick F
2 May 2009
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meh. Geographically, North America stretches all the way to the Panamanian-Columbian border.
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Mary J
4 May 2009
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I believe that I would prefer the idea of a free trade agreement with the people on our continent to the “Most Favored Nation” trading status that we have conferred on China. If by giving the nation states in the Americas the ability to compete, we increase their standard of living we would have a much smaller problem with illegal immigration, and all of our manufacturing wouldn’t have to be outsourced to Asia.
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planksheer
5 May 2009
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It ain’t going to happen. I see very little that Bush can expect to accomplish in his remainng days. The Rubber Stamp days are over.
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Naturescent
9 May 2009
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It’s already here. This is just a formality for the public.
Stage One:
Stage Two
Stage Three
The Continents of North and South America will become one under the same Union – just like is continuing to happen with the EU.
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Enigma
12 May 2009
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Costa Rica voters voted the US trade agreement in just today. Happy days for the planners for a one world government. Suck em in one by one before breaking the bad news. Sorta like drug dealers get their buyers hooked and then they up the cost and pimp them out.