Obama Doesn’t Plan to Reopen Nafta Talks

[dcsmart]

By BRIAN KNOWLTON
Published: April 20, 2009

WASHINGTON — The administration has no present plans to reopen negotiations on the North American Free Trade Agreement to add labor and environmental protections, as President Obama vowed to do during his campaign, the top trade official said on Monday.

“The president has said we will look at all of our options, but I think they can be addressed without having to reopen the agreement,” said the official, Ronald Kirk, the United States trade representative. It was perhaps the clearest indication yet of the administration’s thinking on whether to reopen the core agreement to add labor and environmental rules.
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[joeybee12]

1. He's doing the wrong thing now so he can do the right thing later!

Makes perfect sense to me...then again, I've been seeing pigs fly lately.