| City Hall: February is a month for political appointments
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The Case for the Colombia FTA
The Colombia FTA is a trade agreement even Lou Dobbs could love, because it rectifies what is currently an unbalanced, one-way free trade relationship. (...) Ninety-two percent of imports from Colombia currently enter the United States completely duty free. It has been that way for 16 years, since Congress first passed the Andean Trade Preferences Act that gave Colombia access to our market as a way to reduce poverty and fight the drug trade. (...) Members of Congress from both sides of the aisle (...) voted strongly in favor of these one-way preferences the last time they were up for renewal. Don't believe me? Here is a shopping bag of products. Let's compare some prices: [A] can of Colombian coffee comes into the United States duty-free. But this bottle of Pepsi, made in the USA, pays a stiff 20 percenttax when sold in Colombia. [A bouquet of] beautiful Colombian flowers – a major Colombian export – come into our market and pay zero tariffs. But this U.S.-made fertilizer, which helps those flowers grow, is charged up to 15 percent when exported to Colombia.
We must name our price
Given that you will always have men who put their interest before that of others you need to make sure that the men chosen to be in charge in government institutions are committed to protect the public interest against the highly developed survival instinct of businessmen. .
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