Yeah, because NAFTA has been great for the USA so far...

@schniepel:
Ok, power blocks then. To my defense you spelled country wrong.   On a more serious note, labeling it for export is a small step.

@arby:
Nafta includes Mexico, so its hard to compare to a EU-US agreement even if it only included canada. EU alone has more inhabitants as entire NAFTA. Its bnp is far bigger then canadas or mexicos. US is Europe's most important trading partner already despite the distance between them.
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Mexicans get paid by Obama to take your job Einstein

Sorry but my new employer has an allergy to California. I will not be driving down there under him

The extremes, for instance, sell an atom bomb to a firm that wants to protect itself from criminals. I simply did not want to let the debate end up in those ridiculous examples often made by free trade haters. That's all.

The EU isn't a country, that is like calling NAFTA or the African Union or the Comonwealth a country. There are 28 diferent countries in the EU.

Oh and no the European Union should not have a free trade agreement with the USA, the EU should use protectionist policies to protect jobs in its member states. Rather than importing lots of things manufactured somewhere else.

The EU already does this with agricultural products via massive subsidies to European farmers using the Comman Agricultural Policy and it should do the same with manufactured goods.

"The EU isn't a country, that is like calling NAFTA or the African Union or the Comonwealth a country. There are 28 diferent countries in the EU."
Only semantics. Whether you like it or not, the EU is an economical and political union, not comparable to NAFTA, which is only a trade agreement. That trade agreement is not as far reaching as eg the free trade zone in EU and there is no central governing institution at all.  The commonwealth is more like an old school reunion gone to far.

So I edit, despite everyone knew what I ment "two most developed areas in the world."

"Oh and no the European Union should not have a free trade agreement with the USA, the EU should use protectionist policies to protect jobs in its member states. Rather than importing lots of things manufactured somewhere else. The EU already does this with agricultural products via massive subsidies to European farmers using the Comman Agricultural Policy and it should do the same with manufactured goods."
We already do that, and it is the reason many third world countries don't develop as well despite a great potential in the primal sector. It also means they can't buy manufactured goods back from us, as they remain poor. You do know you advocate mercantilism in an age where trade is globalized?

The agricultural policy is a major disaster. We pay 5 times to produce products nobody needs. They eat an anormous amount of our tax money and deliver only waste. It is about the worst example you could give.

If you want to debate this future we have to open a new thread, as it would go far off-topic.

"The joke is they proly feel the same way. They have higher standards in other fields as we do and vice versa. Its hard, if not impossible to say who has the highest obligated "standards". You have EU who tends to over-regulate at some areas, but you have an over the top sue-the-producer-culture in US to compensate for that."

You are probablly right about this:)
I would actually be fine if we could agree on labeling food if it was dipped into chlorine or includes genetically modified stuff, but that seems to be quiet an issue for the producers.
I somehow prefer not eating chicken which is dipped into chlorine over suing the producer after it made me ill.
On the other hand.. i would be kinda happy if i could get some good old fashioned lightbulbs again.

If you cancel your unions we can discuss this.

"If you cancel your unions we can discuss this."
Believe me, I'm not their greatest fan, but as Zarf put it, it means an economic advantage for US if anything.

But don't you have the same problem, corrupt and populist unions? A majority in Belgium thinks the unions should change their ways, and thank God for that, but hey are still to strong and have a lot of political influence. I think we are united in this battle instead of divided.

and get those Czechs to stop claiming they brew Budweiser