Economics
U.S. Trade Deals Have Added Half a Million Jobs, Agency Says
- ITC report excludes some deals including China, Japan
- Study looks at pacts under congressional trade authority
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U.S. free-trade agreements reached over the past 3 1/2 decades have had a “small but positive” effect on the world’s biggest economy, a report by a bipartisan federal agency analyzing trade issues showed.