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(Full text and external link unavailable) (Letter) This provides an opportunity to re-think the issue and to convert the original goal of free trade only for the Americas into a co-operative regional agreement (like Apec) and simultaneously to pressure trade liberalization multilaterally at the World Trade Organization. That is the model, also of President Kennedy’s celebrated, but premature, Alliance for Progress for South America.

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(Full text and external link unavailable) (Letter) As economists deeply interested in the future of the world trading system, we and a group of economists worldwide would like to urge the member states of the WTO to make the endorsement of a target date for free trade their first priority.

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(Full text and external link unavailable) (Letter) You seem to accept too readily the conclusion in the recent World Trade Organisation report that these agree­ments have been "complemen­tary" to multilateral liberalisation ("WTO's blessing for trade groups", April 27). Surely, this conclusion is unwarranted.