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R.C. Longworth`s thorough reportorial series in The Tribune on the role of foreign trade in the current deindustrialization of America is welcome; in fact, it`s long overdue.
The issue of ”free trade” versus ”managed trade” is no longer an editorial abstraction. It`s a gut issue. As Prof. John Culbertson of the
University of Wisconsin, who has published extensively on the problem, summarizes succinctly:
”Free trade is taking away U.S. jobs and undercutting the nation`s standard of living. A new kind of trade policy is needed to save the nation from a serious economic decline.”
