Business Lobby: Election-Season Trade Opposition Will Blow Over
By ERIC MORATH
Mar 15, 2016 5:14 pm ET
A couple of major presidential candidates have made rolling back free-trade agreements the centerpiece of their campaigns, drawing widespread support across the U.S. But one of the nation’s top business advocacy groups isn’t worried.
The next president will support trade once elected, said John Engler, president of the Business Roundtable, whose members are chief executives at the country’s largest corporations.
“Trade at election time can be pretty negative,” said Mr. Engler, a former Republican governor of Michigan. “Then after the election, we get the right things done.”
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“The Clinton family has a history of supporting trade,” Mr. Engler said, noting President Bill Clinton’s approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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