Inside U.S. Trade reports that
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas (R-CA) today (April 3) called on the Bush Administration to acknowledge that the ongoing Doha round of trade negotiations is completely stalled over European intransigence, and refocus its energies on completing negotiations for free trade agreements already launched before fast-track negotiating authority expires in July 2007.
Thomas is concerned about anti-free trade forces within the U.S., and about alleged EU intransigence. He wants to continue to move forward with FTAs. This seems the Bush administration's implicit strategy anyway, but it is interesting that Thomas wishes to make it explicit.
