Mr. Bush plans to formally ask Congress to give him the authority to negotiate trade deals that could be voted up or down by lawmakers without changes.
Free trade opens a country to the outside world because of the increased communication.
Bush does not want Congress to nit pick free trade agreements because each Representative wants to protect their own import competing industry. The commission agreed to grant substantial preferences to imports of Ecuador s bananas during the EU s transition to a quota-free market. Europe has a history of promoting its own investments through trade restrictions. Europe has investments in African banana plantations and has kept out bananas from Central America. As part of the GATT and the WTO agreements, Europe is slowly eliminating its quotas that keep out Central American bananas.