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		<title>Start Cutting The Flood Of Imports Now!</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/01/start-cutting-the-flood-of-imports-now/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/12/01/start-cutting-the-flood-of-imports-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As year-end 2011 nears, the massive flow of imports into the United States. continues unabated.  In the decade ended 12/31/2010, we lost 55,000 manufacturing facilities through closings or sale to foreign owners. The pace has continued this year at about 1,000 a month, and with it the loss of many thousand jobs. The best long-term [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Bold Way to Create Jobs</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/04/a-bold-way-to-create-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2011/03/04/a-bold-way-to-create-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balance of trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush administration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=7730</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a bold way to create jobs that’s being ignored by Washington! What’s the plan? Pass a federal law to return to our pre-1970 status of maintaining a positive overall annual balance of  trade with other trading nations. How would that work? We’d permit total imports each year to match our own ongoing exports. Import certificates  would be issued and traded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Reasons for U.S. to Abandon Free-Trade Myth</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/30/six-reasons-for-u-s-to-abandon-free-trade-myth/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/10/30/six-reasons-for-u-s-to-abandon-free-trade-myth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Ricardo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair trade]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mercantilism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protectionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Nixon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade deficit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ian Fletcher Adjunct fellow, U.S. Business &#38; Industry Council The price of living in the fantasy world of free-trade economics continues to rise for America. Failure to recognize the pitfalls will probably mean a continuing struggle to emerge from recession, as much U.S. domestic demand leaks abroad due to the trade deficit, rather than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jobs and Exports: New Report Highlights Obama Peril with Bush Trade Pacts</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/09/23/jobs-and-exports-new-report-highlights-obama-peril-with-bush-trade-pacts/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/09/23/jobs-and-exports-new-report-highlights-obama-peril-with-bush-trade-pacts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exports]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lori Wallach Director of Public Citizen&#8217;s Global Trade Watch The growth rate of U.S. exports to the countries with whom we do NOT have Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) has been over double that to U.S. FTA partners. That stunning finding should put an end to recent Obama administration talk about reviving three NAFTA-style FTAs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assert Yourself, America; Don&#8217;t be an Illegal Trade Victim</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/09/10/assert-yourself-america-dont-be-an-illegal-trade-victim/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/09/10/assert-yourself-america-dont-be-an-illegal-trade-victim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[forced technology transfer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank A. Asbeck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hunan Sunzone Optoelectronics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=5355</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How is it that America finds herself in the position of schoolyard patsy, woe-is-me victim of China’s illegal trade practices that are destroying U.S. renewable energy manufacturing and foreclosing an energy-independent future? Come on, America. Stand up for yourself. Tell China that America isn’t going to hand over its lunch money anymore; international trade law will be enforced now. That’s the demand the United Steelworkers (USW) union made this week when it filed suit detailing how China violates a wide variety of World Trade Organization (WTO) obligations.]]></description>
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		<title>America Has a Huge Trade Deficit Bubble Looming</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/09/01/america-has-a-huge-trade-deficit-bubble-looming/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/09/01/america-has-a-huge-trade-deficit-bubble-looming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Balanced trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Byron L. Dorgan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fair trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russ Feingold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Balanced Trade Restoration Act of 2006]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=5171</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We all know that the nation’s annual trade deficit is figured by deducting our total exports to the rest of the world from our imports from the many exporting nations.  Our current exports are about $1.6 trillion, with imports of about $2.4 trillion, for a U.S. trade deficit of $800 billion annually. Those deficits are so great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Can&#8217;t Rely on Foreign Consumers to Rescue American Jobs, and Why Wednesday&#8217;s &#8220;Jobs for America Summit&#8221; Was a Bad Joke</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/15/why-we-cant-rely-on-foreign-consumers-to-rescue-american-jobs-and-why-wednesdays-jobs-for-america-summit-was-a-bad-joke/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/15/why-we-cant-rely-on-foreign-consumers-to-rescue-american-jobs-and-why-wednesdays-jobs-for-america-summit-was-a-bad-joke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley Fred Hochberg, president of the Export-Import Bank of the U.S., thinks I&#8217;m wrong to worry about a trade war, and that the president&#8217;s goal for doubling U.S. exports over the next five years is on track. Writing here on HuffPost, Hochberg says: Reich&#8217;s argument [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We are No. 2; We are No. 2!</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/13/we-are-no-2-we-are-no-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/13/we-are-no-2-we-are-no-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From the USW International President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chuck Schumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Debbie Stabenow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[devalued currency]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[exports]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lindsey Graham]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=4299</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Leo W. Gerard By Leo W. Gerard USW International President For 110 years America has reigned as the world’s number one manufacturing nation. Next year, China is expected to wrest that title from the United States. Last year, the U.S. manufactured $1.7 trillion worth of goods; China fell second at $1.6 trillion. Next year, China [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Grip of the Old Economy</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/08/the-grip-of-the-old-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/08/the-grip-of-the-old-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic reform]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=4238</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Robert L. Borosage Co-Director of the Campaign for America’s Future President Obama touted his National Export Initiative this week, boasting that in the first quarter of this year, exports were up 17% from a year ago. Increased exports abroad generate jobs at home. Given the failure of the Senate to pass badly needed jobs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Announces Export Council, Reports on Export Progress</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/07/obama-announces-export-council-reports-on-export-progress/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/07/obama-announces-export-council-reports-on-export-progress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Campaign for America's Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exports]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=4229</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Dave Johnson Fellow with Campaign for America’s Future In his State of the Union speech President Obama announced the National Export Initiative, a campaign to double US exports within 5 years. Today he gave a progress report and announced the members of his Export Council, with a number of CEOs (and one labor leader) [...]]]></description>
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