Obama says US can't send protectionist trade message
WASHINGTON |
WASHINGTON Feb 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he did not want to send a protectionist message on world trade and would look at altering "Buy American" language in an economic stimulus bill coming out of Congress.
"I agree that we can't send a protectionist message. I want to see what kind of language we can ... work on this issue," he said on the Fox television network.
"I think it would be a mistake, though, at a time when worldwide trade is declining for us to start sending a message that somehow we're just looking after ourselves and not concerned with world trade."
(Reporting by Jeff Mason, Editing by Sandra Maler)
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