A Close Call for Free Trade: American Business Returns to the GATT Fold

1991 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Bill Frenzel
Keyword(s):  
Free Trade ◽  
American Business ◽  
Close Call ◽  
Business Returns

The United States

Free Traders ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 94-112
Author(s):  
Malcolm Fairbrother
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bill Clinton ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
American Business ◽  
Business Associations ◽  
Contentious Issue ◽  
The Face

Once Canada and Mexico each agreed to negotiate free trade, the United States began pressing its demands for content in the agreements that was consistent with what US business leaders wanted. In the end, private sector representatives were very pleased with the results of the negotiations. When NAFTA turned into a highly contentious issue, in 1992 and 1993, major American business associations and even individual firms campaigned hard for the agreement's ratification by Congress. That ratification was still not a sure thing, however, and Democratic president Bill Clinton needed to make NAFTA possible by advocating its ratification and supplementing it with side-agreements on labor and the environment. Clinton’s compromise position and the advocacy of business helped win over just enough critics to get NAFTA through, including in the face of substantial public skepticism.

Rating the severity of close-call events

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Sheridan ◽  
Kim Cardosi ◽  
Daniel Hannon
Keyword(s):  
Close Call

Free trade at last?

IEE Review ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-36
Keyword(s):  
Free Trade

Educating Ms. Fatima

1970 ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
Tim Walters ◽  
Susan Swan ◽  
Ron Wolfe ◽  
John Whiteoak ◽  
Jack Barwind
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
High Technology ◽  
Emerging Technology ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
Free Trade Zones ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
K 12

The United Arab Emirates is a smallish Arabic/Islamic country about the size of Maine located at the tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Though currently oil dependent, the country is moving rapidly from a petrocarbon to a people-based economy. As that economy modernizes and diversifies, the country’s underlying social ecology is being buffeted. The most significant of the winds of change that are blowing include a compulsory, free K-12 education system; an economy shifting from extractive to knowledge-based resources; and movement from the almost mythic Bedouin-inspired lifestyle to that of a sedentary highly urbanized society. Led by resource-rich Abu Dhabi and Dubai, the federal government has invested heavily in tourism, aviation, re-export commerce, free trade zones, and telecommunications. The Emirate of Dubai, in particular, also has invested billions of dirhams in high technology. The great dream is that educated and trained Emiratis will replace the thousands of foreign professionals now running the newly emerging technology and knowledge-driven economy.

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