International trade has become the world’s most powerful economic force. We must secure America’s competitive advantage by preventing other countries from erecting barriers to innovation. We propose to:
Revitalize the World Trade Organization
negotiations on agriculture and services.
Give the next president fast-track negotiating authority.
Negotiate reductions in tariffs on U.S. industrial goods and the elimination of other trade barriers so that our autos, heavy machinery, textiles,
and other products will no longer be shut out of foreign markets.
Take action against any trading partner that uses pseudo-science to block importation of U.S. bioengineered crops.
Advance a Free Trade Area of the Americas to take advantage
of burgeoning new markets at our doorstep.
Revise export controls to tighten control over military technology and ease restrictions on technology already available commercially.
Source: Republican Platform adopted at GOP National Convention
Aug 12, 2000
Promote free trade with America setting the standards
Republicans are confident that the worldwide trade agenda is full of promise. Tariffs should be cut further. The U.S. can back private sector efforts to streamline common standards and deregulate services. America can set the standards and be at the
center of a web of trade, finance, and openness. If some nations choose to opt out, they will see how other countries accepting economic freedom will advance on their own. This is a vision of private initiative encouraged, not stifled, by governments.
Source: Republican Platform adopted at GOP National Convention
Aug 12, 2000
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