| Colombia Deserves a Vote!
What Would You Say to a Fair Trade Agreement with Colombia?
Since 1992, bipartisan majorities in the U.S. Congress have repeatedly passed legislation to open the U.S. market to Colombian goods. Here's the result:
- Colombian flowers enter the U.S. market duty free...
...but the U.S. fertilizer that helps them grow is slapped with a 15% tariff when it enters Colombia.
- Onions come from Colombia, duty free...
...but a Caterpillar tractor faces a 10% tariff when sold in Colombia.
- Colombian bananas enter the U.S. market duty free...
...but a Pennsylvania apple is marked up by 15% in Colombian tariffs.
- Colombian coffee comes to the U.S. duty free...
...but soft drinks face a 20% tariff entering Colombia.
Nearly everything we import from Colombia enters our market duty free, but U.S. exports to Colombia face tariffs that average 14% for manufactured goods and far higher for agricultural products. That's not fair!
The U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement will level the playing field for American workers, farmers, consumers, and companies by opening the growing Colombian market to our exports. All of Colombia's tariffs on U.S. exports will be eliminated, most immediately.
Now that's Fair Trade!
Colombia Deserves a Vote!
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The tariffs imposed on American exporters tick upward - roughly $22 per second, almost $2 million per day and nearly $1 billion since the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement was signed.
-International Trade Commission
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| | | | Overheard
| | | ''With the sustained help of the United States and the strong leadership of President Uribe, Colombia has, in the words of a recent report, moved 'back from the brink' of being a failed state to being an example of positive transformation in the world.''
- Letter to Congress from former senior Democrat staff who support the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement, April 21, 2008
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