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The Iowa Fair Trade Campaign sent a letter to all presidential candidates campaigning in Iowa that set forth what Iowa's major labor, farm, religious, and environmental organizations considered principles of an acceptable trade and globalization policy. Below are candidates' responses — the most comprehensive trade and globalization statements to date.
The information is presented in two ways: all candidates' responses are grouped together by sub-issue and each candidate's full letter is available at the link below. The effort that some of the candidates put into responding to the Iowa Fair Trade Campaign letter shows the political significance trade and globalization issues are playing in the 2008 election cycle. Interestingly, although several Republican candidates have emphasized criticism of status quo trade policies, the Iowa Fair Trade Campaign has yet to receive their responses.
The Iowa Fair Trade Campaign has no preference among the candidates running for President.
Read our press release here (PDF).
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Check out these pages to see what each candidate said about the following specific issues:
- Replacing the Fast Track Trade Negotiating Process
- Labor Standards
- Environmental Standards
- Foreign Investor Rules That Promote Offshoring, Undermine Domestic Public Interest Laws
- Imported Food and Product Safety Standards
- Access to and Regulation of Essential Services
- Government Procurement Policy Limits Set in Trade Pacts
- Reviewing and, as Necessary, Renegotiating NAFTA and other Existing Trade Agreements
- Changing Course on the Current Doha Round WTO Expansion
- Combating the Huge U.S. Trade Deficit (currency manipulation, trade law enforcement, etc.)
Here are the individual candidate statements (all PDFs):