International Trade committee  That's the way we built our manufacturing industry, with the National Policy.

International Trade committee  I'm not sure it was the 1920s or if it was the late 1920s and the 1930s. Smoot–Hawley was 1928, I think.

International Trade committee  Yes, it was.

International Trade committee  I used to work for the Department of Finance. They didn't mean much to revenue but they did have a use.

International Trade committee  Yes, it is.

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement gave us a significant market opening because we were prepared to make concessions on the security of energy supply and a number of other issues. NAFTA was a defensive agreement for Canada

International Trade committee  Yes.

International Trade committee  I think what we have to do, Mr. Easter, is to try to conclude the agreements faster. Now somebody might ask me how you do that, and I would then say shoot all the lawyers—

International Trade committee  But that's not really the problem. The problem is the spin and the way that people try to sell these things. You have to be much more focused on what's practical. If you can do the deal on 98% of the tariff lines, you should do the deal on 98% of the tariff lines, instead of taki

International Trade committee  China does want to be in TPP, and China is negotiating a deal called ASEAN+6. It's a reality. I understood that we were almost ready to announce negotiations of a free trade agreement with China, and there was a hiccup and it didn't happen. I think that if the Americans can get t

International Trade committee  I would think so.

International Trade committee  You can't be outside the tent. You just can't be outside the tent. It's not just a question of the tariffs, because in a lot of cases the tariffs are disappearing anyway. The tariffs are not as big an issue. It's the differential treatment. You're not going to be dealing.... For

International Trade committee  We wouldn't be able to take advantage of opportunities where other people are in the market with preferences. The other way to look at it.... I can give you an example. I represent pork producers. I'm doing that most of the time these days. When we got into Colombia before the A

International Trade committee  The P4 was a deal with Brunei, Singapore, New Zealand, and Chile. It was open for admission to any member of APEC that wanted to join. The Americans stuck up their hand and said they'd like to join, and then they proceeded to move it from something simple into basically a much br