If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations.
The CAFTA region currently imports $15 billion annually of U.S. agriculture and manufactured goods.
U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products.
There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.
Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.
We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.
It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.
America's biggest export is media and I think that's a positive thing.
Rather than subsidize 'American' exporters, it makes more sense to subsidize any global company - to the extent it's adding to its exports from the United States.
Each dollar Mexico exports to the U.S. has a content of American production of 40¢.
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