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Hochberg calls on Trump to bolster his trade bona fides by backing the Ex-Im Bank

February 3, 2017 at 7:53 AM
Backing the Export-Import Bank would be an “easy trade win” for President Trump, the bank's last president said this week. Fred Hochberg, who led the Ex-Im Bank from 2009 until last month, penned a New York Times op-ed saying the “broad national consensus” on free trade has “died” now that the president has withdrawn from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and called for a renegotiation of NAFTA. He also laments the “small group of Tea Party leaders in Congress” who have...

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