[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 16]
[House]
[Pages 22202-22203]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                           TRADE MUST BE FAIR

  (Mr. SMITH of Michigan asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I was one of the Members down in 
Mexico this past Thursday, Friday and Saturday and Sunday at the WTO 
negotiations. I think a lot of Members of Congress were concerned that, 
again, this country might give in to what other countries wanted just 
for the sake of more world trade.
  I would like to commend the Bush administration, and Robert Zelnick, 
our trade ambassador, for holding the line and not giving away things 
just for the sake of more world trade that eventually might have hurt 
our manufacturing business and our agriculture. I think no longer can 
we afford to have

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world trade just for the sake of world trade. It has got to be fair. It 
cannot be to the long-term disadvantage of America.

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