PASS FREE TRADE -COLOMBIA
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Big salute to the Colombian government for the hostage rescue yesterday. Today 3 Americans are back in the USA & free after being held for 5 years by FARC.

USA support of the Colombian government yielding returns & we need more cooperation. Most Colombian goods now enter the USA duty free but many USA goods exported to Colombia face a duty.

The bill before Congress on the Colombian Free Trade Agreement needs to be passed. This will benefit the USA....

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By illinoismel Jul 3rd 2008 at 8:31 pm EDT
It also benefits people like you that benefit, doesn't it? Yes, I am still around.
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By MICHAEL on The Beach Jul 3rd 2008 at 8:34 pm EDT
No direct benefit to me...

Only means that more USA products can enter Colombia tariff free...Study the bill....
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By Pirrettel Jul 11th 2008 at 4:33 pm EDT
He beach, you are pretty uninformed.

America paid a shit load to gorilla's to release them...this was not a Columbian effort.

NO, to free trade. You're a repuke.
  
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By MICHAEL on The Beach Jul 3rd 2008 at 8:41 pm EDT
PCMOORE,

Over 90% of Colombian goods already enter USA tariff free. The trade bill will level the playing field to benefit of USA...READ THE BILL...

It will pass & is being held as political hostage...

STUDY THE BILL & IT SHOULD SHOCK YOU IT HAS NOT PASSED...
  
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By MICHAEL on The Beach Jul 3rd 2008 at 9:05 pm EDT
"It is clearly time for the United States Congress to free its own hostage — the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Colombia. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the FTA prisoner earlier this year as a sop to her party’s left-wing, with its affinity for the hemisphere’ s rabidly anti-American Castro-Chavez-FARC elements and its vehement antipathy to the successful, pro-American and right-of-center government in Colombia.
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Never mind that the economic benefits of the Colombian Free Trade Agreement redound disproportionately to the U.S. After all, under other accords, Colombia’s exports to this country enjoy duty-free status while American exports to Colombia are subject to significant tariffs that would be eliminated once the FTA enters into force. The freedoms enjoyed by independent trade unions and respect for civil liberties under President Uribe compare favorably to nearly all of Latin America — especially the growing number of nations in the region now under the tyrannical control of Hugo Chavez or his surrogates."