What’s the beef behind the Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA)?
On Jansing & Co this morning on MSNBC, Chris Jansing spoke about the divide between President Obama, Harry Reid and union leaders. I tuned in to listen with the desire to find out exactly what the issue was. When the report was complete, all that I heard which made any sense was the union’s concern over the deaths of union leaders in Colombia and the lack of enforcement. It was then that I decided to search and discover what I could. Here is a portion of what I found as provided by www.ustrade.gov. “The United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, sometimes called the Colombia Free Trade Agreement or FTA, was signed on November 22, 2006. It’s a comprehensive free trade agreement and when it enters into force it will immediately eliminate most of its tariffs on U.S. exports, with all remaining tariffs phased out over defined time periods, include important disciplines relating to customs administration and trade facilitation, technical barrier...