Look for the union label, buy canadian, etc. are great rallying cries from people who you will find find shopping at Walmart, Dollar Store, etc. where if you took the time to look the majority of the labels read Made In China.
- Peter Foster: A straight face on trade barriers
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The U.S. trade representative kept a straight face as he slammed ‘domestic favouritism’
By Peter Foster
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he leaders of the NAFTA nations — President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Felipe Calderon — will hardly be meeting as “Three Amigos” at their summit in Guadalajara tomorrow and Monday.
Canada and Mexico have been particularly rattled not merely by the U.S. financial crisis but by the policies hatched to deal with it. Their economies were already being damaged by the United States’ obsessive, if understandable, concerns with border security. Now even further damage is threatened by perverse climate-change and energy policies.
The range of NAFTA concerns was expressed in a statement yesterday from the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC), which is made up of prominent U.S., Canadian and Mexican businessmen. Significantly, the statement was mainly about the threat of U.S. policies.
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