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On the recordSeptember 17, 2003
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 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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Nick Smith
Republican · Michigan

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Discussing U.S. trade policy during WTO negotiations in Mexico.

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