Guiterrez on “Free Trade”

“It is important for our colleagues in China to recognise that the voices in the US calling for protectionist policies are real.”

Carlos Gutierrez, US secretary of commerce.

Richard McGregor, “US adds pressure on China over trade,” Financial Times London, 3/29/06.

“There can't be one set of rules when your team plays away and a different set of rules when they play at home. Such hypocrisy makes global progress impossible. How can the richest countries in the world lecture others about the gains from liberalisation whilst adding further barriers to entering their own markets?”

Alan Johnson, British trade and industry secretary.

Jean Eaglesham, “Free trade ‘is not a one-way street’ say UK in attack on US ‘hypocrisy,’” Financial Times London, 3/31/06.