From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (misc.activism.progressive co-moderator)
Subject: TRADE NEWS 9/30: CLINTON USES A.I.D. CONTROVERSY IN SPEECH
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 04:04:41 GMT


    "It doesn't serve the interests of the workers in the United
    States or Central America when employers close their factories
    down here that provide workers with a decent standard of living
    and open up sweatshops to pay starvation wages in another
    country."  Clinton
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Topic 168       TRADE.NEWS 9-30-92 
kmander Updates on GATT & NAFTA Negotiations     1:44 pm  Sep 30, 1992 
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TRADE NEWS BULLETIN 
Wednesday, September 30, 1992 
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NAFTA News Summary 
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CLINTON USES A.I.D. CONTROVERSY IN SPEECH 

At a campaign rally in Louisville, Kentucky yesterday, Presidential  
candidate Bill Clinton spoke about the 60 MINUTES story which  
described how the U.S. Agency for International Development  
promotes the export of jobs from the U.S. to other countries.   

"At a time when companies are having a hard time getting loans to  
expand factories in middle America, Mr. Bush's administration is  
offering loans at low cost in Central America," Clinton said.  "It  
doesn't serve the interests of the workers in the United States or  
Central America when employers close their factories down here that  
provide workers with a decent standard of living and open up  
sweatshops to pay starvation wages in another country." 

Clinton added: "60 MINUTES, listen to this, the 60 MINUTES program  
actually showed film of a United States government employee  
promising what he thought was a business prospect that there would  
be no union activity in the Central American country because --  
listen to this -- because the prospective troublemakers could be fired  
and blacklisted so they would never be hired.  That is a violation of  
all of our trade agreements, and this Administration has supported  
it." 

Clinton never mentioned the North American Free Trade Agreement,  
which labor leaders fear will encourage the exodus of even more jobs  
to Mexico. 

Source: Governor Bill Clinton in a speech in Louisville, Kentucky.   
Reprinted in the NEW YORK TIMES, September 30, 1992, p. A11;  
"Clinton Accuses Bush of Exporting American Jobs," UPI, September  
29, 1992. 
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DAIRY FARMERS CONCERNED ABOUT NEW NAFTA COUNTRIES 

U.S. dairy farmers expressed concern to members of Congress over  
news reports suggesting New Zealand and Australia may join the  
North American Free Trade Agreement.  In a letter to leaders of the  
agriculture committees and Midwest state delegations, Farmers  
Union Milk Marketing Cooperative (FUMMC) President Stewart G.  
Huber said, "Expanding NAFTA to include New Zealand and Australia  
has very serious implications for all family dairy farmers in this  
country.  NAFTA will allow cheap dairy and beef imports from these  
two countries, with the very lowest production costs in the world, to  
batter farm income for American producers as our dairy and beef  
import quotas are eliminated through tariffication." 

FUMMC says it is worried enough about the original NAFTA  
provisions without the new additions.  "There's nothing in the  
agreement to prevent Mexico from exporting its entire national milk  
production to the U.S. and meeting its domestic needs through  
cheaper dairy imports," the letter states.  "There's now an even  
greater danger that cheap dairy ingredients from outside countries  
will surreptitiously find their way into our market through NAFTA." 

Source: "FUMMC Warns U.S. Dairy Interests Threatened If New  
Zealand, Australia Join NAFTA," NEWS RELEASE, September 29, 1992. 
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GATT News Summary 
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GATT COUNTRIES EXPRESS FRUSTRATION AT EC, US 

The patience of GATT member countries is wearing thin as the U.S.  
and EC continue to take steps that are viewed as delaying the  
completion of the Uruguay Round.  GATT ambassadors  expressed  
frustration at the European Community's refusal to accept the  
formation of a binding arbitration panel to settle the oilseeds dispute.   
The U.S. was criticized for expanding a U.S. subsidy program for  
wheat exports. 

Australian GATT ambassador David Hawes called President Bush's  
decision to expand the U.S. Export Enhancement Program a further  
narrowing of the markets available to "fair-trading" wheat exporters.   
Hawes said the U.S. and EC export subsidies are "destroying the  
incentive for farmers in other countries to produce."   

Canadian officials argued the subsidy war will only create additional  
difficulties in completing the agriculture section of the Uruguay  
Round.  "We are concerned that there are now virtually no  
commercial markets left that are not distorted by the corrosive  
effects of subsidies either by the U.S. or EC or both," Canadian Grains  
Minister Charles Mayer said.   

Australia and other farm exporting nations called for urgent  
consultations to limit damage from the US-EC conflict and appealed  
for an early completion of the Uruguay Round. 

Another rift in EC-US trade relations looms as France called on the EC  
to consider retaliation against the U.S. for recently imposing levies on  
French, German and British steel exports.  EC foreign affairs ministers  
are scheduled to meet next Tuesday to discuss retaliatory action. 

Source: Frances Williams, David Dodwell, "Wheat War Fuels GATT  
Dissent," FINANCIAL TIMES, September 30, 1992, p. 4; "Canada Blasts  
U.S. and EC Over Grain Subsidies," REUTER, September 30, 1992;  
William Dawkins, "France Angered by Levies," FINANCIAL TIMES,  
September 30, 1992; Stephanie Nebehay, "EC-US Farm Subsidy War  
Under Fire at GATT," REUTER, September 29, 1992. 
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Produced by: 
Kai Mander     
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) 
1313 Fifth Street SE, Suite #303 
Minneapolis, MN 55414-1546 USA 

Telephone:(612)379-5980 Fax:(612)379-5982  
E-Mail:kmander@igc.org 
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