Brian Yap: Just Sayin': What people want is fair trade, not free trade

BEFORE the year 2000, which also happens to be the year President George W. Bush stepped into the Oval Office, the United States only had three free trade agreements — with its North American neighbours Mexico and Canada, and Israel. Six years later, Australia, Bahrain, Chile, Jordan, Oman, Morocco, Singapore, Peru, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua have joined the list. The Republican administration, one has to assume, has a thing for free trade agreements.

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