{"id":309948,"date":"2010-02-11T16:29:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T21:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldtradelaw.typepad.com\/ielpblog\/2010\/02\/obama-on-trade-the-latest.html"},"modified":"2010-02-11T16:29:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T21:29:40","slug":"obama-on-trade-the-latest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/309948","title":{"rendered":"Obama on Trade: The Latest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a soon to be published interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-02-11\/obama-says-he-s-fierce-free-market-advocate-rejects-critics.html\">Bloomberg BusinessWeek<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>In an effort to make U.S. exports more attractive, Obama set a year-end objective for persuading China to allow the value of its currency to rise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy goal over the course of the next year is for China to recognize that it is also in their interest to allow their currency to appreciate because, frankly, they have got a potentially overheating economy,\u201d Obama said.<\/p>\n<p>He said his administration is \u201cgoing to have some very serious negotiations\u201d with China that are \u201cgoing to be bumpy.\u201d China has held its exchange rate with the dollar steady since July 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Obama discussed a range of economic issues in the 35-minute interview with editors and reporters.<\/p>\n<p>He said he would press for passage this year of free-trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Colombia, though he cautioned that \u201cdifferent glitches\u201d must first be negotiated with each country. &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?a=jJq8ytufR7s:BRoXyxBOq_E:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?a=jJq8ytufR7s:BRoXyxBOq_E:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?a=jJq8ytufR7s:BRoXyxBOq_E:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?i=jJq8ytufR7s:BRoXyxBOq_E:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?a=jJq8ytufR7s:BRoXyxBOq_E:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?a=jJq8ytufR7s:BRoXyxBOq_E:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/ielpblog?i=jJq8ytufR7s:BRoXyxBOq_E:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ielpblog\/~4\/jJq8ytufR7s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a soon to be published interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek: In an effort to make U.S. exports more attractive, Obama set a year-end objective for persuading China to allow the value of its currency to rise. \u201cMy goal over the course of the next year is for China to recognize that it is also in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}