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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (4853)	1/5/2017 3:00:23 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356199

I've read the claim that a lot can be done to help our exporters by just ENFORCING some of the trade rules that were written. In other words, it's not perhaps necessary to walk away from a trade agreement and start over. But I don't know specifics. Before NAFTA changed things, the US had bilateral trade agreements--trade between us and just one other country. It's rumored that bilateral discussions are being held now with Great Britain since they left the EU. We have bilateral agreements with all the big Asian countries, I think. China, though, is considered to be dragging it's feet on meeting many of the targets set years ago. These were targets to allow increasing amounts of US goods into the Chinese market. But China still keeps tarriffs so high that it shuts a lot of US manufacturers out.