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Maria Cantwell: “The Middle East Free Trade Agreement. If the president…”

Featuring: Maria Cantwell, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Washington

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Discussion with Senator Maria Cantwell and former USTRs, Carla Hills and Susan Schwab

Published | Video Starts at 41:21

But we're not. We're not. We need to understand the impacts that all of this has. So now I look at this and I mentioned one example, The Middle East Free Trade Agreement. If the president wanted to pursue something like that, it's clear that these Middle east countries would like to see. A. Relationship as it relates to AI. There's a lot of export control issues there, but you could see that the region could be brought together. (41:21–41:30)

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Asserts that Middle Eastern countries would be interested in a Middle East Free Trade Agreement if pursued by the president.

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