<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4ab0b9c9-d930-406b-a0a0-4d5e84b4ec0d/D48DD3C4-B144-447E-BB71-247D4433ED62/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newint.org/features/2004/12/01/free-trade-facts/" href="http://www.newint.org/features/2004/12/01/free-trade-facts/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newint.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newint.org/features/2004/12/01/free-trade-facts/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newint.org/img/66200653-A640-4B1D-9D0E-F911DA2909CE" alt="Percentage distribution of world merchandise exports by region1" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newint.org/features/2004/12/01/free-trade-facts/"><H2>Free trade is an old idea that’s taken on new life over the past decade – January 2004 marked the tenth anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Free trade is part of a broad process of trade liberalization being pursued by Western governments as well as the WTO, the World Bank and the IMF. </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newint.org/features/2004/12/01/free-trade-facts/"><P>The vast majority of the value of world merchandise trade – about 75% – is accounted for by manufactured goods, mostly transport machinery and electronic equipment. Minerals and agriculture, the staples of the developing world, make up just 22% of merchandise trade.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newint.org/features/2004/12/01/free-trade-facts/"><P>• With the exception of East Asia and Central America, developing country exports have not increased significantly over the past 40 years. • The share of South America, Central and Eastern Europe and Africa in total world exports was lower in 2002 than in 1960. • While world exports grew at an annual rate of 6% in the 1980s, exports from the poorest countries grew at a rate of just 2% a year.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D48DD3C4-B144-447E-BB71-247D4433ED62/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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