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PANAMA CITY, Panama — Western Hemisphere nations agreed Wednesday to review labor and environmental practices in an effort to make sure that increased trade helps rather than hurts their countries.
The pledge came from a meeting of more than a dozen U.S. trading partners that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice attended in Panama.
The ministers released a statement after the session that pledged to look for the best ways to avoid environmental degradation and labor abuses — two problems critics say have been aggravated by the pursuit of more trade business.
