What "free trade" and globalization means to Bush.
"Bush prods Congress to OK free-trade deals."
"US loses cotton subsidies fight." And they're appealing. The issue is that the US subsidizes cotton which is supposed to compete in the world markets with unsubsidized cotton, in what Bush calls "free trade".
"Oxfam official Gawain Kripke told the BBC that the ruling would also have a beneficial impact on African cotton farmers, if Brazil is successful in reducing American cotton subsidies."
"The truth is that it takes a bigger country to really make the US comply, because the market has to be big enough that the US is worried about it," he said. "
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