The CAFTA Clash, Part II And III

Under the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) the agricultural sectors of the US, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic would be stripped of tariffs and similar trade protections. In the view of the opposition, this policy, now awaiting full ratification by the US and three other member countries, would perpetuate a trend in US farm policy that has fattened multinational agriculture organizations and starved smaller farms across the world. http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/1832 Labor Fears Free Trade Deal Will Prompt ‘Downward Spiral’ Part Three of Three on the CAFTA Clash by Michelle Chen May 25 - If Congress ratifies the pending agreement liberalizing trade among the United States, Central America and the Dominican Republic, union members in Kansas and factory hands in El Salvador may soon find their futures more tightly bound in two longstanding, parallel struggles: competing for the same jobs and fighting for the same rights. The Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), which would essentially eliminate international trade barriers in the seven member nations -- the US, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua -- has deepened the cleft between organized labor and multinational corporate interests on issues of global trade. While both sides see a globalized workforce as an unavoidable reality, they clash over the question of whether transnational trade and investment serve as a vehicle, or a roadblock to economic sustainability. http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/1848

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