'Fair' Traders Are Perplexed By Obama's Pick for USTR
President-elect Barack Obama's selection of former Dallas, Texas, mayor Ron Kirk as his United States Trade Representative has thrown the fair trade community for a loop.
Kirk, a lawyer with the respected Houston firm of Vinson & Elkins, has been a supporter of the NAFTA superhighway and of free trade, both of which have been held in low regard of late among recently elected populist Democrats in Congress, and even among some Republicans.
Source: Manufacturing & Technology News















