US, Europeans believe free trade cuts jobs: poll
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A majority of people in the United States and most of Europe's big countries believe free trade cuts local jobs and mainly benefits multinationals and economies such as China and India, a survey showed on Tuesday. Days before key talks on a new world trade deal originally billed as a way to help poor countries, the survey showed two-thirds of respondents on both sides of the Atlantic had a positive view of international trade in general. However, in the United States, Germany, Poland and especially in France and Italy -- although not in Britain -- most respondents said freer trade reduced employment in their home countries. Fifty-eight percent of Europeans and Americans would support raising tariffs -- the opposite of what the World Trade Organization (WTO) is trying to do -- to protect jobs. The poll was conducted between September 16 and October 3 among a random sample of about 1,000 adults in each of the countries. It was commissioned by the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), a transatlantic think tank.
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