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May122008
Colombia: "If you're for free trade, you take it wherever you can get it"
At a Brookings Institution discussion on the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) says that “if you’re for free trade, you take it wherever you can get it.” He said that the ideal situation would be to strive for a “worldwide agreement, secondly regional, and only lastly bilateral” but that trade in general is “necessary for the rest of the world know that the United States is in the game.” (0:30)
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