Occasionally President Bush acts like someone that appreciates free trade:

Beijing has welcomed a decision by US President George W Bush to reject a commission recommendation that called for anti-dumping quotas on imports of Chinese steel pipes… The US International Trade Commission found in October that Chinese producers were dumping imports of circular welded non-alloy steel pipe on the US market at unfairly cheap prices. ITC chairman Stephen Koplan recommended that Bush impose an annual quota of 160,000 tons on such steel imports for three years. Bush argued, however, that action to curb imports would encourage other countries to step into the market and would only serve to drive up costs for US steel consumers. The action was a rare respite from Washington’s usually highly critical stance about the state of US-Sino trade relations as exports from the Asian giant have soared on the back of its surging economy. [The Standard]

Moreover, Ben Muse notes that it looks like the Byrd Amendment will be dead by late 2007.