Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW Vol. 5 Num 569 Sun. January 01, 2006       Letters to Editor Politics and trade Nurul Abrar, University of Miami, Florida In our class we have been taught that trade is good for the economy as a whole, though it does not treat everyone equally. When a US Senator visited our campus to talk about trade and politics, a student in our class asked the Senator, "Why are there still barriers to trade? And why cannot there be more free trade?" The senator simply answered, "Welcome to the world of politics" and then said that the trade policies and models, in practice, are dominated by political consideration, rather than consideration of national costs and benefits.