...Foreign trade legislation
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House Democrats voted for it, while
just 27 of the 231 Republicans voted
against it.
Now it looks like some of the Re-
publicans who voted for it may have
been punished at the polls in Novem-
ber: 18 “free trade” incumbents in the
House and six in the Senate lost to “fair
trade” challengers, reports Global
Trade Watch, a project of the non-profit
group Public Citizen. In addition, “fair
traders” won 11 House seats and one
Senate seat being vacated by retiring
“free traders.” Meanwhile, no “free
trader” defeated a “fair trade” incum-
bent, and no “free trader” won any seat
vacated by retiring “fair traders.” For
“fair traders” that’s a net gain of 29
votes in the House and seven in the
Senate.
Fifteen countries have NAFTA-
style bilateral or multilateral trade
agreements with the United States:
Canada, Mexico, Jordan, Australia,
Morocco, Singapore, Chile, Bahrain,
Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua,
Costa Rica, Guatemala, Dominican
Republic and Oman.
President Bush finalized a NAFTA-
style treaty with Peru in April. On pre-
vious occasions, U.S. trade negotiators
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had said that adding enforceable labor
rights provisions to trade treaties would
be unacceptable to some Third World
trading partners. This time, that dodge
was exposed: Peruvian President Ale-
jandro Toledo publicly offered to in-
clude an enforceable commitment to
comply with basic standards promul-
gated by the United Nations-affiliated
International Labor Organization. The
U.S. trade representative declined to
take him up on the offer. New York
Congressman Charles Rangel and New
Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman wrote a
letter to Bush saying he could get a bi-
partisan majority if he renegotiated the
treaty to accept Toledo’s offer before
going to Congress for ratification. The
letter was signed by 14 other members
of Congress, including Oregon Senator
Ron Wyden. President Bush disre-
garded that advice.
The Vietnam vote wasn’t about a
trade treaty but about “permanent nor-
mal trade relations” (PNTR). Under a
1974 law, each year Congress and the
president look at the human rights
record of Communist countries before
awarding them the same tariff treat-
ment other countries get. In 2000, Con-
gress voted to exempt China from this
annual review. Now the president
wants to exempt Vietnam. Oregon
Representatives Earl Blumenauer, Dar-
lene Hooley and Greg Walden voted
for permanent normal trade relations
with Vietnam, along with Southwest
Washington Congressman Brian Baird.
Voting against it were Oregon’s Peter
DeFazio and David Wu. During Con-
gressional debate on the bill, Blume-
nauer said he strongly supported the
legislation, adding that imports from
Vietnam are important to two compa-
nies with a big presence in Oregon:
Nike and Intel.
In a press statement reacting to the
vote, Teamsters President James Hoffa
Jr., said the bill would only benefit
multinational companies that are in
Vietnam to take advantage of “dismal
labor conditions” and low pay. “Viet-
nam is a Communist country,” Hoffa
said. “There is no freedom of associa-
tion, and if you speak out against the
government or its businesses, you will
be imprisoned .… It is shameful that
some members of Congress see a ben-
efit in this.”
The Vietnam PNTR bill hasn’t got-
ten a vote by the full Senate yet. It
passed the Senate Finance Committee
July 31 with support from Oregon U.S.
Senators Ron Wyden (D) and Gordon
Smith (R).
The most recent trade treaty negoti-
ations to conclude are with Colombia
— the most dangerous place in the
world to be a trade unionist. Colombia
accounts for more assassinations than
the rest of the world combined: Last
year, 70 trade unionists were assassi-
nated, and so far this year at least 56
have been killed. President Bush
signed the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade
Agreement Nov. 22, but it appears un-
likely to win Congressional ratifica-
tion.
Free ‘Holiday Party
for Children’ slated
Dec. 2 in Salem
SALEM — The 66th annual
“Holiday Party for Children” will be
held at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 2, at
the Elsinore Theatre, 170 High St.
SE, Salem.
The free event sponsored by the
Marion, Polk, Yamhill Counties La-
bor Council will feature Santa
Claus, holiday songs with the
Patrick Lamb Band, a showing of
“Garfield, A Tail of Two Kitties,”
and goody bags.
Doors open at 9:45 a.m.
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