Cafta Quotes

There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations.

It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.

I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.

Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade.

Well, look, let me put it this way. Back in 2005, when I was a freshman, I - I was the first Democrat to support CAFTA. My labor union folks made me their number-one target. They came after me, and I'm still here.

The CAFTA region currently imports $15 billion annually of U.S. agriculture and manufactured goods.

The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations.

U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products.