Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.

The biggest share of U.S. exports to the six CAFTA nations is not the traditional job-creation kind. These are products that are not consumed in the purchasing nations.

Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts.

Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.

Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties.

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tendency to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results.