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<h3 style='margin-top:2.25pt;background:white'><b><font size=2 color=navy
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";color:navy;font-weight:normal'>Mar 3, 2010 <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h3>
<h1 style='line-height:110%;background:white'><b><font size=4 color=navy
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:110%;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";color:navy;font-weight:bold'>Warning on Obama trade plan <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<h1 style='line-height:110%;background:white'><font size=2 color=navy
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:110%;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";color:navy'>http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_497227.html<o:p></o:p></span></font></h1>
<p style='line-height:140%;background:white'><font size=2 color=navy
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";color:navy'>WASHINGTON - PRESIDENT Barack Obama's plan to negotiate
an Asia Pacific free trade pact could have a devastating impact on the dairy,
sugar and textile sectors in the United States, US industry groups warned on
Tuesday. Negotiators from the <st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">New Zealand</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Peru</st1:country-region>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Vietnam</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Chile</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region>
and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Brunei</st1:country-region> will meet in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Melbourne</st1:City>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region></st1:place>
on March 15 for the first round of talks on the proposed Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP) pact.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:140%;background:white'><font size=2 color=navy
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";color:navy'>It is Mr Obama's first big trade initiative since taking
office. Although most major US farm and business groups support the proposed
agreement, domestic dairy, sugar and textile groups and their supporters in
Congress worry about possibly having to open the US market to foreign
competitors. 'Any expansion of dairy trade between the US and New Zealand
would impose considerable economic harm on US dairy producers, as well as on
many in the US dairy processing sector,' the National Milk Producers Federation
said in remarks prepared for a US International Trade Commission hearing on the
proposed pact. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:140%;background:white'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><font size=2 color=navy face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:navy'>US</span></font></st1:country-region></st1:place><font
size=2 color=navy face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
140%;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:navy'> milk producers complained that one
New Zealand Company, Fonterra, 'controls over 90 per cent of the milk produced
in that country, meaning that we are essentially pitted against a monopoly
power.' <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:140%;background:white'><font size=2 color=navy
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:140%;font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";color:navy'>-- REUTERS<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Trebuchet MS"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:navy'>Andrew Gussert<br>
Director, Citizens Trade Campaign<br>
<st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">1150 17th Street N.W.,
Suite 300</st1:address></st1:Street><br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Washington</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">D.C.</st1:State></st1:place> 20036<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS";color:navy'>Cell#:
202.494.8826<br>
Fax#: 202.293.5308<br>
<a href="http://www.citizenstrade.org"><font color=navy><span style='color:
navy'>www.citizenstrade.org</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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