In FT Professor Jagdish Bhagwati says “Mr Obama needs a stellar crew that will understand the protectionist nature of “fair trade” demands and dispel the unions’ baseless fear that trade with poor countries harms American workers’ wages.
Alas, his cabinet appointments include Mrs Clinton, whose trade scepticism is badly muddled at best, as secretary of state, and Hilda Solis, who reflects the anti-trade sentiments of the union federation, AFL-CIO, as labour secretary”.
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