Trading Up
By TIA President
Grant Seiffert
There's always a charged atmopshere around the approval process for free trade agreements (FTAs), because so many different parties have so much at stake.�What makes the FTAs currently before Congress unique is the overwhelming support for them across all facets of U.S. industry.
It's no secret that the Korea FTA, in particular, would present major benefits to the U.S. high tech economy. The FTA would reduce Korea's domestic preference programs, especially for wireless technologies, where U.S. suppliers have marked advantages, while putting not a single U.S. job at risk because of the high cost of labor in Korea.
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