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    House passage of USMCA marks shift in US strategy

    by Don Lee, Los Angeles Times Dec 19, 2019 5 minutes

    WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly passed the new North American trade deal, voting in unusually bipartisan fashion just a day after impeaching President Donald Trump strictly on party lines.

    Approval of the trade bill, which now goes to the Senate for almost-certain ratification, did far more than help Trump notch a major achievement: It marked a significant change in U.S. economic strategy toward the rest of the world.

    For much of the last 70 years, throughout the Cold War and down to more recent times, Washington used America's vast wealth and economic power to build friendships and alliances that bolstered national security.

    That strategy included a fundamental commitment to free trade - opening the large U.S. market to products from all over the

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