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Marcy Kaptur: “You can't have free trade agreements when you have closed markets and when you have state-run capitalism like is…”

On the recordMarch 3, 2015
You can't have free trade agreements when you have closed markets and when you have state-run capitalism like is happening in China.
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Marcy Kaptur
Democratic · Ohio

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Kaptur critiques the feasibility of free trade with closed markets and state-run economies.

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