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America’s Uneasy History with Free Trade

Harvard Business

One of Hull’s masterstrokes was to recruit U.S. This proved the most controversial of all US trade accords, in part because average wages in Mexico were only a fraction of those in the United States, giving Mexican products an advantage on labor-intensive goods and thus threatening U.S. Global trade negotiations remained a U.S.