41.   The Swiss are now negotiating with the EU to establish a trade treaty on issues ranging from transportation to labor and residency rights.

42.   The trade treaty will act like a tax cut stacked in favor of the poor.

43.   Their fight is over an obscure patent provision in a trade treaty and among their weapons are threats, blandishments and coalitions of convenience.

44.   They, as well as a variety of labor and nongovernmental leaders, signed a statement against including labor and environmental issues in trade treaties.

45.   Trade treaties are another check.

46.   Under fast-track rules, the administration negotiates trade treaties that Congress must approve or reject without amendment.

47.   Venezuela, for one, has reaped huge benefits thanks to the trade treaties it has with its neighbors, Rojas Parra said.

48.   When that happens, the labor, consumer, environmental, human-rights, gender and generational rules in international trade treaties will begin to bite.

49.   When the trade treaty took effect, Desc had much business in the United States and continued to be a big supplier to Mexican auto makers.

50.   With those powers, the president is authorized to negotiate trade treaties that Congress can approve or reject, but which it cannot amend.