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To: KyrosL who wrote (58322)	4/9/2008 1:14:04 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542957

Let me rephrase. We're still talking past one another. You're talking about the correct policies to improve the US position vis a vis global trade. I'm talking about the perception, now growing, in the electorate that global trade is a negative. It's that perception, now beginning to mobilize itself more aggressively into congressional and national politics, that is the issue. Until successive US administrations put together economic policies which address those sectors of the country--regions and industrial sectors--which are threatened by global trade or feel threatened by such, until then the political pressures to turn down trade deals, at a minimum, will increase. It will, likely, have little or nothing to do with the content of the specific deal. And everything to do with fears of the economic consequences of the larger global trade issue.