{"id":57,"date":"2005-05-05T19:04:43","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T23:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/05\/05\/letter-to-an-american-textile-outs"},"modified":"2005-05-05T19:04:43","modified_gmt":"2005-05-05T23:04:43","slug":"letter-to-an-american-textile-outsourcer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2005\/05\/05\/letter-to-an-american-textile-outsourcer\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to an American Textile Outsourcer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a76'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">by <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Alan Tonelson, Research Fellow, U.S. Business and Industry Council<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Sunday, April 24, 2005<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; My correspondent &#8230; believes that [CAFTA is] far from perfect from<br \/>\na domestic textile industry standpoint, but at least it will enable<br \/>\nthem to keep some business in selling fabric that would otherwise go to<br \/>\nthe Chinese &#8212; because the agreement&#8217;s provisions ostensibly give<br \/>\npreferences for apparel assembled in Central America from U.S.-produced<br \/>\nmaterials.<\/p>\n<p>I think he&#8217;s wrong &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Dear X:<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nFar from being a quixotic campaign to go back to the past, my<br \/>\norganization and I consider a wholly new U.S. trade policy to be our<br \/>\nnation&#x2019;s only option for retaining a critical mass of manufacturing at<br \/>\nhome, along with all the economic, social and national security<br \/>\nbenefits that manufacturing creates.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nOne of the main goals of our effort is preserving America&#x2019;s ability to<br \/>\nset trade policy priorities, and thereby ensure that the intended<br \/>\nbeneficiaries of new trade agreements &#x2013; both domestic and foreign &#x2013;<br \/>\nactually receive these gains. That&#x2019;s of course one of the stated<br \/>\nrationales for CAFTA, as your letter recognizes. But nothing about<br \/>\nCAFTA or the rest of current U.S. trade policy provides any reason to<br \/>\nsuppose that signing this agreement will produce these results.<\/p>\n<p>In the first place, CAFTA contains many loopholes that will directly<br \/>\nundercut the important goal of helping Central American producers<br \/>\nmaintain or create competitive advantage vis-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alan Tonelson, Research Fellow, U.S. Business and Industry Council Sunday, April 24, 2005 &#8230; My correspondent &#8230; believes that [CAFTA is] far from perfect from a domestic textile industry standpoint, but at least it will enable them to keep some business in selling fabric that would otherwise go to the Chinese &#8212; because the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[780],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globalization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}