And so we got a race to the bottom just as the unions and the members of Congress, most Democrats who oppose that agreement said would happen. Yeah, so At that time, and I wasn't in Congress obviously what was the discussion when they had these incentives that literally made it encouraged people to offshore or send out of the United States good manufacturing jobs. So at the time people were used to trade agreements like the GATT that were just about tariffs and so few people read the trade agreements. (11:05–11:19)
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Asserts that NAFTA included incentives that encouraged offshoring of U.S. manufacturing jobs.
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