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The Rise of Protectionism: The voices of ignorance ("Buy American") and prejudice ("Limit visas") have grown predictably louder during the current crisis. Fortunately, reason and the forces of globalization have managed to prevail. So far. Buy American Take the Buy American provisions. In the original House...; Tags: U.S., Immigrant, Tariff, MoneyWatch, H-1B, Free Trade, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Finance, Protectionism, Nativism, Smoot-Hawley Act, Global Trade, Buy American, NAFTA, Visas, Immigration, H-1B Visas, Cait Murphy; Articles 2009-04-15
How to Make the Financial Crisis Worse: Trade barriers. "Buy American" rules. Anti-immigrant hysteria. The protectionist fever that helped make the Depression Great shows sign of reemerging here and now. Do bad times bring out countries' inner protectionists? Yes, and there are alarming signs that it could be happening again. "This has happened in the past,"...; Tags: Financial, Crisis, MoneyWatch, Government, Construction, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, Marketing, Human Resources, Protectionism, Nativism, Smoot-Hawley Act, Global Trade, Buy American, NAFTA, Visas, Immigration, H-1B Visas, Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, Trade Barriers, Great Depression, Jagdish Bhagwati, Free Trade; Articles 2009-04-15

Japan warned: Jenkins Bill could go beyond textiles. (Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act): TOKYO FNS -- Textiles and apparel moved to the top of the boiling U.S.-Japan trade agenda last week when a key congressional panel chairman warned Japan that the Textile and Apparel Trade Act, the so-called Jenkins Bill, limiting textile imports, could pick up some additional provisions...; Tags: chairman, Government, Japan, Jenkins, Rep, U.S. Congress; Research articles 1985-08-12