Support growing for trade pacts, U.S. Democrats say
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Support is growing in Congress for free trade agreements with Peru, Panama and even Colombia because of a deal congressional leaders reached earlier this year with the Bush administration, several Democratic lawmakers said on Wednesday.
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Trade ministers from a key group   of developing nations pressed the United States and the   European Union on Saturday for more concessions to help break   deadlocked global trade talks.
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As the Bush administration races to push free-trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea through Congress before leaving office next year, it is meeting a level of resistance observers call high even by the normally contentious standards of such debates.
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One of the biggest U.S. trade unions made an unusual dual endorsement in the 2008 White House race on Thursday, backing Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Mike Huckabee for their parties' presidential nominations.
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US trade policy is far from perfect, of course. But election year rhetoric, particularly that on &quot;outsourcing&quot; of jobs, may have given some Americans a distorted view of reality.
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This year's U.S. presidential election has special significance for East Asia. A Pacific Ocean diminished in size by technology has linked East Asia's economic future with America's. Any slowdown in the U.S. spells problems for Asia. Although intra-East Asian trade has grown by double digits yearly since the 1990s, the end destination for about 25% of the region's manufactured products is still the U.S. Asia needs a U.S. Administration that supports free trade and is able to restrain domestic pressures to protect American jobs by restricting outsourcing.
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US-India trade, which has seen barriers fall dramatically in recent years, will get an additional boost once a US program fostering high-tech exports goes into effect this year, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said.
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The four Democratic senators who are seeking their partyÃ¢ÂÂs 2008 presidential nomination have been spending much of their time on the national campaign trail. But all were on Capitol Hill Tuesday to support a bill that was very important to organized labor Ã¢ÂÂ a key ally of the Democratic Party, and a constituency that will be a major influence in the upcoming primaries and caucuses.
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Many in the beet industry have taken the trade deal, a pact with Central American countries signed by the administration, as a sign of fading support for sugar protections, and they are fighting back.
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Freshmen Senate Democrats asked on  Monday for a role in crafting any new U.S. trade legislation,  joining a similar push by their colleagues in the U.S. House of  Representatives.
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Opponents of legislation that wouldÂ overhaul the U.S. patent system have enlisted new allies who may cause majority Democrats in Congress to rethink their support of the proposals.
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The Democrats appear to be gaining the upper hand in the battle to sign up new voters in the all-important swing states, an Associated Press analysis suggests.
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Prominent Western Democrats who have snatched Senate seats and governorships from Republicans in recent years are joining forces with the hope of spreading their party's success to the White House.
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Hopes for more tax relief, looser regulations, and an increase in trade.
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Sugar beet farmers in a rural Minnesota district that turned out solidly for President Bush in 2000 are having second thoughts about his re-election now that the administration is supporting a trade agreement they see as a threat.
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One of the great threats to the American and global economies is trade protectionism. The 2006 election that gave Democrats majorities in the House and Senate tipped toward candidates who ran on protectionism. Think of Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Jon Tester,...
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For most of the year, congressional Democrats have been uncompromising on issues including the Iraq war and expanded health insurance for poor children, believing that public opinion favored them and that Republicans would break with President Bush. But the GOP held firm and Congress's approval r...