The Trade Warriors: USTR and the American Crusade for Free Trade ebook

by Steve Dryden

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While headline-grabbing conflicts may provide the drama that alerts a drowsy public to free trade's importance, Dryden leaves little doubt that the patient bargaining done by USTR technocrats on America's behalf in successive rounds of the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) and drafting bilateral or multilateral accords like NAFTA are appreciably more consequential.

As the recent controversy over NAFTA shows, free trade is an issue that evokes passionate debate among .

For a history of the USTR, see Steve Dryden, Trade Warriors. His ideas were later published in his book The Big Ten: Big Emerging Markets and How They will Change our Lives (New York: Basic Books, 1997)

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USTR and the American Crusade for Free Trade. Rather than get hung up on oilseeds, golf carts, and legalisms, Dryden loosely builds each chapter of his history around the colorful and often quirky personalities of trade honchos, starting with William L. Clayton, a soft-spoken Houston millionaire whose efforts as Under Secretary of State to create the first International Trade Mrganization in 1947 ended in failure. But 15 years later, Clayton's efforts launched the USTR. Scanning the years between Clayton and current Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, the reader gets an education in the evolution of .

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) created one of the world’s leading free trade areas, comprising the United States . Trade Warriors: USTR and the American Crusade for Free Trade. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, p. 381.

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As the recent controversy over NAFTA shows, free trade is an issue that evokes passionate debate among Americans. And the lightning rod for emotions over free trade is the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. In fact, during the NAFTA battle, Trade Representative Micky Kantor was pivotal in winning congressional approval of the agreement. Now, in Trade Warriors, former Business Week writer Steve Dryden provides the first comprehensive history of the USTR, an elite, Cabinet-level agency whose officials hold sway over the livelihoods of U.S. workers, the fortunes of small factories as well as multinational corporations, and America's relationships with the other major industrial powers of the world. Based on extensive interviews and declassified documents, Trade Warriors traces the transformation of the postwar U.S. campaign for free trade. Dryden starts his narrative in the late 1940s, when the United States dominated the global economy, then moves to 1962, when President Kennedy appointed former Secretary of State Christian Herter to be the first-ever White House "special trade representative," and concludes with the landmark negotiations of the Clinton administration. With a fine journalist's eye, he takes us inside the contending forces that have shaped U.S. trade policy, weaving a compelling story of policymakers and negotiators--their behind-the-scenes struggles, their triumphs and failures. And alongside these hard-fought negotiations, he highlights a more subtle ideological battle, as he examines America's deep ambivalence about unrestricted free trade and government involvement in the economy. Noting our growing use of trade restrictions in defense of our interests, he concludes that while there has been much idealistic talk about free trade--a claim that if all the barriers come down, everyone will benefit--the government has long since abandoned such beliefs in practice. Finally, Dryden draws evocative portraits of notable USTRs, colorful biographical sketches worth reading for their own sake. We meet charismatic Texas Democrat Robert Strauss, who used flattery, self-depreciation, pleading, and coarse humor to close deals; Republican notable William Brock, who within months of taking office struck an agreement with the Japanese limiting their auto imports, but who could never become an insider in the Reagan administration; William Eberle, an Idaho businessman who spoke with a slight cowboy twang and whose tendency to play tough guy inside the negotiating room earned him the sobriquet "Typhoon Eberle"; and super-lawyer Carla Hills, who came tantalizingly close but couldn't conclude the biggest trade agreement in history. Today, almost every American is touched in some way by the forces of international commerce. Trade Warriors is essential reading for anyone who wishes to better understand the evolving role of the United States in the world economy.