Trade Crusade
Can congress help small businesses compete globally?
In recent years, the U.S. has run record trade deficits. Bothpolitical parties made trade, foreign competition and outsourcingkey issues in the November 2004 elections, even charging that someforeign nations, such as China, were not following free tradedeals, dumping products onto the U.S. market.
That trade has been a key political issue is hardly surprising:As free trade has expanded, competing in a global environment hasbecome increasingly important to small businesses. AndEntrepreneur's "Point/Counterpoint" team,veteran New York Democratic congresswoman Nydia Velázquez andyoung Arizona Republican congressman Rick Renzi, are battling forthe interests of U.S. small companies.
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