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Marcy Kaptur: “As the gentleman says, it ought to be called not free trade, because it is not free trade. It is not good trade, we know…”

On the recordJune 13, 2005
As the gentleman says, it ought to be called not free trade, because it is not free trade. It is not good trade, we know that. It certainly is not positive trade, because all we are yielding are deficits. Maybe we should call it sweat shop trade or indentured trade. There is some other word that should go here.
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Marcy Kaptur
Democratic · Ohio

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