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Posts Tagged ‘nafta’

  • NAFTA Should Not Take the Fall for Mexico’s Failure to Reform

    Posted February 3rd, 2010 at 1:59pm in American Leadership 0

    Participants at a recent conference in Washington blamed Mexico’s failure to achieve above-average economic growth in the past decade on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).  This criticism is unfair and unwise.  The NAFTA agreement is one of the best examples in recent history of a successful, mainstream, [...] More

  • Guest Blogger: Rep. Schock (R-IL):Free Trade Will Boost Jobs

    Posted December 3rd, 2009 at 9:15am in Enterprise and Free Markets 16

    Today, President Obama is hosting a jobs summit at the White House with union bosses and corporate CEOs to discuss ways to accelerate job creation in the US. Noticeably absent are any representatives from the Chamber of Commerce or the National Federation of Independent Businesses, who represent most of the employers throughout the country. While not [...] More

  • Guest Blogger: Wally Herger (R-CA) on Maintaining U.S. Competitiveness

    Posted October 30th, 2009 at 8:40am in Enterprise and Free Markets 6

    Three years ago the U.S. finished negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) with Colombia that would have given American businesses reciprocal access to the Colombian market that Colombian companies have been receiving for years. Two years later, in an unprecedented move, Speaker Pelosi denied the FTA an up or down vote in the House, stripping [...] More

  • The End of a Free Trade Era?

    Posted October 29th, 2008 at 11:21am in American Leadership 0

    If you support free markets, Mary Anastasia O’Grady’s Wall Street Journal op-ed makes for frightening reading: The U.S. hasn’t elected a genuinely protectionist president since Herbert Hoover, and for most of the last 80 years a rough bipartisan consensus has held that free trade is in the American national interest. The erosion of that consensus is [...] More

  • Obama Undercuts America’s Relationship With Colombia

    Posted October 21st, 2008 at 10:16pm in American Leadership 2

    Free trade has been receiving a bad rap lately. Barack Obama’s campaign has come out in full force against free trade. In addition to clumsily saying he would unilaterally renegotiate NAFTA (much to the chagrin of Canada and Mexico), during the third presidential debate Obama voiced opposition to the Colombian free trade agreement under the [...] More

  • Morning Bell: A Trade Free Zone

    Posted October 8th, 2008 at 9:00am in American Leadership 13

    Barack Obama has frequently called the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) “a bad deal.” During one Democratic primary debate, Obama even said he would unilaterally “use the hammer of a potential opt-out” to “renegotiate” the entire treaty. But after he secured the nomination, Obama changed his tune, admitting that NAFTA was not so bad [...] More

  • Free Trade Fact of the Day

    Posted July 29th, 2008 at 10:30am in American Leadership 1

    Responding to Barack Obama’s promise to unilaterally renegotiate NAFTA, President George H.W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers chairman Michael Boskin writes in the Wall Street Journal: [S]ince Nafta was passed (relative to the comparable period before passage), U.S. manufacturing output grew more rapidly and reached an all-time high last year; the average unemployment rate declined as [...] More

  • Free Trade Fact of the Day

    Posted July 16th, 2008 at 12:11pm in American Leadership 2

    No wonder Europe loves Barack Obama: while Obama is promising unilateral withdrawal from NAFTA unless Mexico agrees to new terms to protect U.S. union jobs, the European Union is working to reduce trade barriers with Mexico. The AP reports: The European Union’s executive commission on Tuesday proposed to upgrade ties with Mexico, recommending the North American [...] More

  • Free Trade Fact of the Day

    Posted July 7th, 2008 at 1:56pm in American Leadership 1

    When the Miami Herald’s Andres Oppenheimer interviewed Mexican President Felipe Calderon last week, he was surprised to hear Calderon defend NAFTA by stressing how abandoning the treaty would hurt the U.S.: Contrary to Obama’s claim that NAFTA has hurt American workers by moving U.S. jobs to Mexico, Calderón said that the free-trade deal has brought about [...] More

  • Free Trade Fact of the Day

    Posted June 25th, 2008 at 12:19pm in American Leadership 6

    Great new video from reason.tv out today defending NAFTA by making the argument that the threat to American jobs from trade is no different than the threat from better technology. Host Drew Carey quips:”How are we supposed to compete against something that doesn’t get paid, doesn’t get health insurance, and never goes on breaks? No [...] More