February 25, 2006

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER TRADE DEAL:

El Salvador in US free trade deal (BBC, 2/25/06)

The US has formally agreed a free trade pact with El Salvador but has told five more Central American nations that they must do more to finalise similar deals. [...]

The announcement, by the US Trade Representative's office, came ahead of a meeting between US President George W Bush and his Salvadorean counterpart Antonio Saca.


Meanwhile, most of the folks who were hysterical about steel tariffs are now trying to stop the port deal, making it pretty clear who's free trade and who isn't.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 25, 2006 7:14 AM
Comments

So what was the point of CAFTA? El Salvador was already part of that deal.

Posted by: mc at February 25, 2006 8:20 AM

MC -that's my question as well. Are we double-counting?

Posted by: AWW at February 25, 2006 11:42 AM

"De dook yer djoobs!"

Posted by: Mike Beversluis at February 25, 2006 1:15 PM

This is just implementation of CAFTA:

Congress sanctioned a Central American Free Trade Agreement (Cafta) last year but official implementation has been delayed by a series of legal wrangles.

Posted by: Timothy at February 25, 2006 1:40 PM
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