Jack Kingston

The House Republican Conference has a great compilation of some of the articles supporting the passage of the Colombia Free Trade Agreement (see them here).A personal favorite of our office is Edward Schumacher-Matos’ piece in today’s Boston Globe.He writes: “The agreement, which President Bush sent this week to Congress for an up or down vote, essentially makes permanent the trade preferences that Colombia has had for 17 years. What is new is that the treaty opens the Colombian market to US exports. “So it’s supposed to hurt American jobs if we allow U.S. exports to play on a level playing field with the goods we import from Colombia?  Somehow that just doesn’t make sense.To read the full article, click here.