>>I wonder what you think about it (especially UT members from Latin America):
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>>http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/03/bush.latin.america.ap/index.html
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>Personally, I tend towards "openness"; less restrictions on trade, etc., just as if all countries were, in reality, part of one larger country. (Do you pay duties to "import" wares, say, from Florida to New York?)
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>Now, as you can see in that piece of news, and in many others, people in Latin America tend to be suspicious of anything coming from the U.S.; the general impression is that a free trade zone will be more in the interest of the U.S., and less in the interest of poorer countries. I have no idea if that really is so, but that is a general impression over here.

Well Hilmar, if the NAFTA is of any indication, I would not sign any agreement with the US, for in the end they will do as they please, take the Canada-US lumber dispute as an example.