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Thu Apr 12, 2012, 09:13 AM

leveymg (26,339 posts)

35. The US created GATS, and it's still US-based corps that benefit from it.

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The major beneficiaries of GATS are big financial, accounting, legal, architectural and engineering services firms that have their global headquarters in the U.S. If the US closes its doors to protect part of its markets, they will have the doors shut on them around the world.

The end result would that many of these firms would relocate abroad, with a further loss of US jobs. This is probably not the consequence any of us desire.

I agree that there needs to be a reengineering of overall trade, economic and industrial policy in the US, but I don't think that simply abrogating the WTO GATT and GATS is necessarily the place to start.

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45 replies	Author	Time	Post
India to take US visas complaint to WTO [View all]	alp227	Apr 2012	OP
boo hoo	LiberalEsto	Apr 2012	#1
Oh naive India. Who do they think controls the WTO? nt	Javaman	Apr 2012	#2
corporations that want the cheap labor	TheFarseer	Apr 2012	#38
U.S. corporations. nt	Javaman	Apr 2012	#39
That link goes to Wayback Machine. Please fix the link or delete this post.	leveymg	Apr 2012	#3
Here's a better link	leveymg	Apr 2012	#4
Ta for that	dipsydoodle	Apr 2012	#8
Fixed.	alp227	Apr 2012	#14
Thanks	leveymg	Apr 2012	#18
Hmm, maybe i'm complety off base on this one	Daniel537	Apr 2012	#5
your president and congress are selling out your sovereignty rights all over the place. What	msongs	Apr 2012	#9
All international agreements are bad or just trade agreements?	pampango	Apr 2012	#12
Why shouldn't we retain the right to do what we want?	Daniel537	Apr 2012	#21
Perhaps we should, but FDR believed that international organizations like the WTO (GATT), the UN	pampango	Apr 2012	#24
WTO very different from the GATT; ditto for the UN.	OrwellwasRight	Apr 2012	#26
I did not say that "only Tea Parties have problems with today's globalized trading regime".	pampango	Apr 2012	#27
FDR was dead by the time the GATT came into existence (1947)	OrwellwasRight	Apr 2012	#40
Of course, we will never know whether FDR would have supported the actual GATT or WTO, we only know	pampango	Apr 2012	#45
You are completely off base. You don't understand the nature of the WTO or other treaties	saras	Apr 2012	#10
I don't believe that free trade requires one country to give visas to the citizens of another	JDPriestly	Apr 2012	#11
Must not block access to service providers under WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)	leveymg	Apr 2012	#19
Then we should leave that agreement.	JDPriestly	Apr 2012	#33
The US created GATS, and it's still US-based corps that benefit from it.	leveymg	Apr 2012	#35
Those agreements were foisted on us by the Ford, Rockefeller, etc.	JDPriestly	Apr 2012	#36
Major restructuring needed. But, trade policy has a consensus of both Parties, the banks, MSM,	leveymg	Apr 2012	#37
i never see any 'dolphin safe' stickers...	happerbolic	Apr 2012	#16
No treaty supersedes US law.	Daniel537	Apr 2012	#20
You clearly haven't read the US Constitution. Treaties are "the supreme law of the land"	leveymg	Apr 2012	#22
Reid v. Covert	Daniel537	Apr 2012	#23
Only in such cases as a clearly established conflict exists.	leveymg	Apr 2012	#25
Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 says nothing about treaties being "the supreme law of the land"	Angleae	Apr 2012	#34
A) it certainly does	OrwellwasRight	Apr 2012	#41
where can I complain about their shoddy work?	Skittles	Apr 2012	#6
WTF!?	Phlem	Apr 2012	#7
India can go fuck off all I care, quit taking our jobs!!!	Odin2005	Apr 2012	#13
AHHHH, that's too bad	magic59	Apr 2012	#15
Folks just a reminder that we have many wonderful Indian Americans who post here at DU	LynneSin	Apr 2012	#17
Meanwhile...."India's strict visa regulations hamper entry of skilled foreigners"	OhioChick	Apr 2012	#28
Yup. They want it both ways. Just like with foreign aid.	closeupready	Apr 2012	#29
India is a net donor country in all multilateral bodies now.	cosmicone	Apr 2012	#31
They should put sanctions on the US	ChromeFoundry	Apr 2012	#30
It is not a one way street.	cosmicone	Apr 2012	#32
This isn't about India.	OrwellwasRight	Apr 2012	#42
I agree, but ....	cosmicone	Apr 2012	#43
I guess I think better not to validate them.	OrwellwasRight	Apr 2012	#44

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