US textile quotas and the WoE

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Microsoft's SLATE writes: >The [Wall Street JOURNAL] notes that yesterday
Turkey joined a growing list of anti-terror allies that have asked the U.S.
for trade concessions and have come away with bubkas. "A half-dozen
countries important to the antiterror coalition have asked the Bush
administration to raise U.S. textile-import quotas," says the Journal. "All
but Pakistan have been turned away." (Here's a question the papers should
ask: Given that the administration espouses the virtues of free trade, why
is it supporting textile quotas?) <

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine