Doris Matsui: “I have been a free trader for the last 23 years, since I have been in the United States Congress. I show my colleagues…”

“I have been a free trader for the last 23 years, since I have been in the United States Congress. I show my colleagues these documents, mainly because we took an up or down vote in 1994, after about 5 hours of debate, and passed this legislation, 5,000 pages. The Uruguay Round, which passed 7 years ago, was basically about reducing tariffs and eliminating quotas. We had a little about intellectual property, but it was basically about tariffs and quotas. This next round, the round that we just witnessed in Doha, the beginning of, will be a round in which we not only talk about tariffs and quotas, which will be a small part of it, but it will be about antitrust laws. It will be about food safety laws. It will be about changes in hundreds of government regulations in the United States.”