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Essay Archive - Economics: Turn Around is Fair Game
Economics: Turn Around is Fair Game
America's size and prosperity have made it the largest consumer of
imported products in the world. Brightly lit shopping malls adorned with the
latest foreign-made apparel, gadgets and trinkets, testify to the vast selection
of goods available for purchase. There is a dark side to this enormous quantity
of choices: a hefty price tag - the federal deficit. Unfair trade agreements,
and, predatory pricing strategies and practices from abroad, placed those goods
on the store's shelves. The United States Trade Representative (USTR), who is
directly responsible to the President and Congress fo....
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