USTR

The latest round of free trade agreement negotiations between the U.S. and three Andean nations ended this week with the Bush Administration denying that U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick would resign following November's presidential election. A September 13 Colombian press report said U.S. officials attending the fourth round of FTA talks, held in Puerto Rico, had told their Colombian counterparts the negotiations would have to finish before January 20, the day President Bush or Senator John Kerry (D-MA) will be...

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick today (April 26) told business supporters that the Senate should move to a vote on fast-track legislation, regardless of whether Democrats and Republicans have reached a final deal on the scope of health care benefits for displaced workers under the Trade Adjustment Assistance bill. Democrats want to pass an expanded TAA with the fast-track bill. "This bill should be about trade, not developing some new entitlement program," Zoellick said in an address to the U.S...