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US-Peru free trade agreement

The US cut a trade deal yesterday with Peru, and US trade officials were thrilled. Why all the triumphalism, when Peru takes in less than 1% of US shipments? From the Marketplace Americas Desk at WLRN in Miami, Dan Grech explains why.

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