Well, if you live on the east coast of the United States and you consider the day to day activities that take place at, for example, the Port of Boston, Logan Airport, our economy In Massachusetts is 1/3, trade related. There you go. Why would we not have a trade agreement with Panama? I mean, they just got done doubling the size of the Panama Canal. Right. And now we're all. Which helps us, which we're all competing now for dollars so that we can dredge our ports up and down the east coast because those tankers are going to come up the East Coast. (25:12–25:20)
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Asserts that Panama has doubled the size of the Panama Canal.
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