Free trade is no panacea -- for Colombia to fully benefit from this deal it will need to accompany the agreement with sound economic policies that boost competitiveness.

This record will likely remain unblemished in 2006.

When labor and environmental issues are directly trade-related, included within the negotiating document or trade agreement will be references to [those issues,]

We will continue to mobilize and radicalize the protests in favor of life and against the free-trade agreement. There will be neither dialogue nor contact with the government.

Let this definitive and final agreement leave no doubt that the New Jersey Devils will start the '07-'08 season at this world-class, state-of-the-art facility. This means the Devils are satisfied that the city of Newark will fulfill its obligations.

A comprehensive trade agreement would take the downward pressure off not only for American producers but for other countries as well,