From: eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK)
Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.elections,talk.politics.misc,alt.politics.clinton
Subject: SPEECH: Carla Hills at Republican National Convention
Summary: Trade speech concerning NAFTA
Keywords: NAFTA, Carla Hills, Republican National Convention
Date: 7 Oct 92 17:57:42 GMT
Followup-To: alt.rush-limbaugh
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

In celebration of Bill Clinton's endorsement of NAFTA, I release the
following speech by Trade Representative Carla Hills, given during the
Republican National Convention. Spelling mistakes are my own.

Please post to the economics and trade newsgroups that would be
interested in this transcript.


Transcript from Republican National Convention
Monday August 17, 1992
Carla Hills US Trade Representative 

Thank you my good friend Alan Simpson for your kind words. Thank you.
Thank you.

Fellow Americans, my fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen, for the
first time in our history the overwhelming majority of the world's
people share a common economic and political vision. That vision is of
the extraordinary achievement possible when the imagination and
ingenuity are allowed to emerge from the shadow of government control
into the light of liberty.

The people of the former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe and
Latin America have chosen freedom. They have torn down the barriers that
have separated them from us.

As those barriers fell, only one man had both the experience and the
vision to lead America and the world out of the Cold War. That man is
the leader of the free world, our President, George Bush.

[Applause.]

The same forces that lead to the dismantling of political barriers are
energizing economic competition worldwide. Today, thanks to our
President, we are in a new era -- not of missile but of markets.

America won the world peace. Now we must win the world market place. Our
new challenge cires out for the experience and global vision of George
Bush.

Today, foreign policy is driven by economics and our prosperity at home
is driven by exports. Trade is the lifeblood of our economy.

Today 70% of our economic growth come from our exports. It is just this
simple. Open markets abroad mean more jobs at home and this is what
George Bush is giving America.

[Applause]

The President has seized every opportunity to open markets, to expand
trade and what success he has had. Last year the United States sold $422
billion in goods abroad, regaining our rightful place as the world's
number one exporter. State exports jumped, on average, a whopping 72%.
And those exports created two million new jobs, good jobs paying 17%
more than the average US jobs. More exports, more jobs, better pay --
George Bush has brought home more gold than our Olympic athletes.

[Applause]

Six days ago, the President announced another splendid achievement of
his market opening trade policy -- the successful negotiation of the
North America Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico. Canada is our
largest trading partner, and Mexico is our third largest.

Linking their economies with our own puts America at the heart of the
biggest, richest market in the world. Open access to this huge market
will make American firms more competitive and create even more and
better paying jobs for American workers.

Already we can see the benefits of expanded trade with Mexico. Mexcico
is our fastest growing export market. Filling export orders from Mexico
keeps more than 600,000 Americans at work. By 1995, with the Free Trade
Agreement, that number will swell to over one million.

President Bush has not just brought home a Free Trade Agreement. He has
brought home a new jobs agreement. He fought for it for us, he got it
for us, and he's going to keep it for us.

[Applause]

And this agreement is chock full of free trade first for America. For
the first time, we will eliminate Mexican tariffs on our industrial
goods. For the first time we will abolish quotas on textiles and
apparrel which make clothes less expensive for American consumers.

For the first time, we can guarantee unrestricted access for our farm
products. For the first time, the Mexican market will be open to our
service industries like banking, telecommunications, insurance,
accounting, and trucking.

All these firsts mean, for California, more work for the computer
manufacturers; for Illinois, more sales for the corn farmer; and for
Michigan, a more secure job for the auto workers; and for America, a
more vigorous economy.

[Applause]

This would be reason enough to celebrate but this trade agreement does
even more. For the first time, and of special significance to President
Bush, this agreement includes far-reaching provisions to protect and
improve our environment.

For the first time, a trade agreement will be accompanied by a program
tailored to train our workers to take advantage of these new
opportunities and for the first time, by stimulating economic growth in
Mexico, we have launched a long-term solution to the problem of illegal
immigration.

Never before has a trade agreement offered such a balance of economic
growth, benefits for workers, opportunity, environmental sensitivity,
and -- yes -- jobs, jobs, jobs.

[Applause]

The North American Free Trade Agreement is a dazzling achievement in the
President's consistent, market-opening trade strategy, brilliantly
conceived to permit America to grow and flourish well into the 21st
Century. And the President's trade successes go far beyond this
hemisphere.

He has opened markets from Beijing to Bucharest, from Tijuana to Tokyo.
In Japan alone, US manufactured exports are up 45% over the past four
years. Yes, Japan is now our second largest customer -- buying more from
us than Germany, France, Italy, and Ireland combined.

American exports are on the move throughout the world and the reason why
is our great President George Bush.

[Applause]

We can't trust the Presidency to just anyone. The President of the
United States of America must be someone who is trusted and respected by
world leaders with the experience at winning new markets and new jobs
for America. That man is our President now and our President for the next
four years -- George Bush.

[Applause]
*** END ***


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