The United States will only hurt itself if it rejects a free trade agreement with Colombia, says Miguel Gomez Martinez, executive director of the Colombian-American Chamber of Commerce.

That's because America already opened its market to Colombian products, says Gomez Martinez, a guest on this week's "America's Business with Mike Hambrick" radio program. Now, Colombia wants to return the favor, he says.

Gomez Martinez expressed surprised some Democrats are against the deal. "First of all the Democrats have always voted in favor of the (trade) preferences for Colombia. So the Democrats already gave us free access to the U.S. market. So it's very difficult to understand why they are not willing to do the same thing for U.S. companies."

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