In Zambia we have had decades of the pro-market policies that are bolted on whenever free trade is mentioned. |
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Those absolutists who extol the virtues of free trade without addressing its costs are urging us to build an incomplete trade policy. |
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In each case, however, free trade generally facilitates the full exploitation of these advantages. |
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A distaste for meddling in free trade in art remains strong, as does our desire for visual contact with an original. |
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In fact, though, they are largely the same goofballs that show up wherever people meet to talk about free trade. |
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The opponents of world bureaucracies, no matter how much they favored free trade, were called isolationists and protectionists. |
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He tried to persuade organized labor that free trade and not protectionism was in its interests. |
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Moreover, the smaller the country, the greater will be the pressure to opt for free trade rather than protectionism. |
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We don't have to choose between strict protectionism and unregulated free trade. |
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Many people confuse the workings of capitalism that lead to lower costs and greater profits with free trade. |
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On the other hand, he's a fierce defender of free trade and a champion of school choice. |
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There is no such thing as a free trade deal, only self-interest, the cynic insists. |
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Economic growth supported by free trade and free markets creates new jobs and higher incomes. |
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Rather, it must be defined in terms of systems, relationships, and objectives such as democracy, free trade, stability, and freedom of the seas. |
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It stipulated freely chosen governments, free trade, freedom of the seas, and disarmament of current aggressor states. |
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This has done serious damage to the fragile alliance that still supports free trade. |
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His corporative state came to terms with Italian capitalism but abolished free trade unions. |
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I am for freedom and prosperity, individual sovereignty, free trade and the cooperativeness that comes from free exchange. |
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You understand why free trade is a good thing, even though you have difficulty convincing your dads and uncles. |
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He favors free trade and giving firms from donor nations the first crack at plum investments. |
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And why one leading congresswoman who strongly supports free trade has come out strongly opposed to the latest so-called free trade agreement. |
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News about stricter visa requirements came alongside reports of a Philippine-Japan free trade agreement nearing conclusion. |
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Dressed informally in windbreakers and sweaters, they helped build a consensus for free trade. |
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A few years later he attacked the comparative advantage rationale for free trade. |
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Thirty years ago, we joined a common market that was little more than a free trade area. |
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The North American Initiative should permit us, independently of the free trade agreement, to provide a new vitality. |
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If we focus on employment, we lose sight of the subtle but very real benefits that commerce and free trade bring. |
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The consequence of a lack of free trade could be a relative impoverishment of the working population. |
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The central aspect of free trade, as the name implies, is the free flow of goods into and out of countries without any imposition of tariffs. |
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Similarly, consider the president's imposition of steel tariffs that were obviously inconsistent with his free trade principles. |
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Much of the argument against free trade is based upon a fallacy that confuses costs and wealth. |
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Dealing with world poverty requires much more than Third World producers accessing western markets, whether on free trade or fair trade terms. |
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You don't hear people talking about any other part that the markets will take care of it, that free trade is the panacea for every ill. |
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If free trade were the only purpose of these trade pacts, the agreements could be written on a few sheets of paper. |
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Chile has been offered the carrot of a more favourable free trade agreement. |
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Labour's favoured party is the Greens, but that free trade agreement with China is a sticking point. |
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Will China suggest Australia compromise its hard line free trade position to attend the Summit? |
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For example, we should still pay attention to human rights, non-proliferation, free trade, and democracy. |
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But free trade also comes with a significant upside for our country, an upside most Democratic pols would rather not discuss today. |
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The former argued that unfettered free trade contributed to sweatshop labour in the Third World. |
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The result of free trade policies is the rise of food prices in the Third World. |
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Typically, students are not taught about the global economy and the impact of free trade on underdeveloped countries. |
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When it comes to competitive production, the advent of the free trade area has exposed the manufacturers' underbelly again. |
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Rather than opposing free trade, they're trying to mollify its effects and work out how we can live with it. |
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Truth be told most of us would rather they weren't trying to play hide the sausage with Australian jobs over this free trade bizzo. |
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While it is unlikely that a free trade area will be set up between the two nations, the deal is likely to see formal ties of bipartite trade. |
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He emphasises a code of ethics for economics, rejects abstract free trade theory, and loathes the trickle-down effect. |
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Expanding free trade bilaterally, regionally, and ultimately, globally, is part and parcel of an ongoing response to those attacks. |
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They say the summit's aims of free trade and open borders help big business and hurt the poor. |
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He has shifted his ground big time and I welcome that Mr Speaker, because it is in everybody's interest to have the free trade agreement passed. |
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The old pre-war shibboleths of laissez-faire, including the hallowed principle of free trade itself, were bypassed or ignored. |
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The liberal creed of cosmopolitanism, free trade, and peace promised to define the shape of things to come. |
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A deliberate policy of promoting free trade can be traced back to the mid nineteenth century. |
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General de Gaulle who preferred a solid continental construction to a loose free trade association finally torpedoed the British initiative. |
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Originally free trade was not like mercantilism, where the government monopolizes and otherwise hinders the right to trade across borders. |
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The Europeans in this regards are the worst culprits, with more and more useless regulation being used as barriers to free trade. |
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There is a strong theoretical and practical case for free trade and the economic benefits it brings. |
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The Geneva-based organisation helps promote free trade by persuading countries to abolish import tariffs and other barriers to open markets. |
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Among Southeast Asian countries, Singapore has been an ardent supporter of free trade. |
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Greg Urwin, how appropriate are these models of free trade and dry economic policies to island states in the South Pacific? |
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It must be remembered that no free trade agreement has ever been vetoed by parliament anywhere in the world. |
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They are now concerned with the lack of free trade caused by rich countries' protectionism. |
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Tariff taxes precipitated both independence movements, and both were based on the view that liberty and free trade were of a piece. |
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Such policies contradict the principles of free trade and the process of liberalization. |
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Churchill allegedly made his move to the Liberals on the issue of free trade. |
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Beyond anticipating elements of the modern theory, George's writings added to the moral foundation of the free trade argument. |
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The Zollverein, or Customs Union, led by Prussia, was creating a larger and larger free trade zone within the German Confederation. |
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After a dozen years at the latest, the two countries will both become part of the Mediterranean free trade zone. |
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But also you have to get rid of this free-trade rhetoric and jargon, because it's kind of a religious devotion to the notion of free trade. |
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We are concerned about the thousands of Kiwi jobs that will be sacrificed on the altar of free trade. |
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He disdains capitalism and free trade, and throughout the campaign accused Yushchenko of being a running-dog lackey of the Yankee imperialists. |
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We even adopted unilateral free trade towards those countries who, so much the worse for them, persisted with their own protectionism. |
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It says Ford is demanding 30 percent price reductions in light of the impending free trade agreement with China. |
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The report recommends engagement through free trade and allowing private citizens to travel freely between the two countries. |
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The EC is also party to international agreements that commit it to a regime of free trade. |
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Such is the trade policy rhetoric of Reaganomics, a rhetoric combining free trade grandiloquence with policies of the merchant. |
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For reacquainting me with that pleasure, I want to thank everyone who pushed for deregulation, privatization and free trade in electricity. |
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Nevertheless, he is advocating a fine balance between free trade and trade restriction. |
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It has been argued that Cavour's acceptance of the free trade and international convertibility regime is patent evidence of his Machiavellian approach to politics. |
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The President's visit underscores the administration's commitment to free trade. |
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These moves were designed to foster free trade and thus to make it easier for overseas companies to sell their wares in China untrammelled by embargoes and tariffs. |
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He's for keeping middle-class tax cuts and holding the line on free trade. |
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So the argument over free trade versus protectionism was debated in parliament by people directly representing different wings of the ruling class. |
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The movement towards free trade spread across Europe in a series of reciprocal trade agreements beginning with the Cobden Chevalier Treaty of 1860 between Britain and France. |
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But, as any proselytiser of right-wing economics worth their salt will tell you, free trade agreements don't work, either ideologically or practically. |
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On the other side, advocates of indigenous authors allied themselves with partisans of free trade and international copyright, claiming universal natural rights of authorship. |
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There was a change in import prices, but only with the countries with which Lithuanian had to renounce its former free trade agreements, such as Ukraine. |
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We're working hard on a free trade agreement that will link the United States and Colombia as well as other Andean nations of South America in a wider economic partnership. |
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Work first to promote free trade before you call for right-to-work laws. |
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These products would not enjoy tariff-free entry into the EU under the Israeli-EU free trade agreement. |
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Tanner is right that free trade, including outsourcing, raises national income in the aggregate. |
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With free trade off the rails, now many in Latin America wonder if the regional compact also has run its course. |
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Australia and Singapore have begun a second round of bilateral trade talks in Canberra, and are aiming to sign a free trade pact by the end of the year. |
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Please, for the sake of Australia's future, the Labor Party should unconditionally support the free trade agreement and do it no later than tomorrow. |
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He defended free trade as necessary to the division of labor. |
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I would speak to Panamanians, El Salvadoreans, and Guatemalans to find out why, despite all the talk of how terrible free trade is, they still wanted to sign a deal. |
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The truth is that free trade is taking our economy and society backwards. |
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The opponents of free trade were by and large those interests that feared British competition in textiles, coke and coal, iron, steel, and machinery. |
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Instead the programs associated with Alexander Hamilton introduced a system of mercantilism, discarding free trade in favor of tariff protection for manufactured goods. |
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Later supporters of free trade opposed the mercantilist theory that the volume of trade is fixed and that to increase one's share one must lessen that of others. |
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On the Democratic side of the ledger antipathy towards free trade is presumed and, by now, historic. |
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Surprisingly, Democrat presidents have, relatively speaking, become the proponents of fiscal responsibility, free trade, competitive markets and neoclassical microeconomics. |
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But the gap between rich and poor countries still remains large and many critics say that free trade policies are benefitting western nations more than developing countries. |
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The problem is that too many rich countries preach free trade but practice protectionism, thus denying trading opportunities and markets to poor countries. |
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With a total population of 1.3 billion people in these countries, the IBSA initiative promises huge benefits in trilateral exchange as a south-south free trade zone emerges. |
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International Unions have monetarily supported political candidates that have openly supported free trade agreements that have cost thousands if not millions of good jobs. |
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During Elizabeth's reign they succeeded in seeing off the challenge of the Hanse, but protests against their monopoly persisted and the advocates of free trade gained ground. |
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My guest tonight says free trade agreements that this is country is pursuing in Central and South America could, in fact, be doing more harm than good. |
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Moreover, while some of the enterprises of the old oligarchical families were jeopardized by free trade, their personal fortunes were generally not. |
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The free trade area is the least onerous in terms of involvement. |
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How can you have free trade, and bring the cost of goods down, by giving people wages, which are below the level of subsistence, and maintain that population? |
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There is not simply a Hobson's choice between free trade and no trade. |
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Free trade does not lower wages or cause persistent unemployment There is nothing new in the current hullabaloo about free trade, jobs, and trade deficits. |
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He also supported the concept of the American free trade area in the Senate but now, on the hustings, is campaigning for protectionism to safeguard American jobs. |
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The shrimpers say they have no problem with the competition that comes with free trade but say they say they want to be sure that free trade is also fair trade. |
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The president says even more trade is the secret to creating even more jobs in this country, though he did promise that any free trade should also be fair trade. |
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At a more specific level, and going back several centuries, histories of national economics show inconstant associations of free trade with economic growth. |
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Thus the adoption of true free trade involves the abolition of all indirect taxation of whatever kind, and the resort to direct taxation for all public revenues. |
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However, this massive intervention does not make Ricardo's principle invalid, it only tells us that if there are no comparative advantages, free trade is the solution. |
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But this is a free trade position, to say that currencies should float. |
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In 1900 he entered the House of Commons as a Conservative but crossed the floor within four years to join the Liberals on the issue of free trade. |
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Various free trade agreements and customs unions had existed between individual European countries during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. |
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The group's next goal appears to be the establishment of an East Asia free trade area in line with its hope of eventually creating an East Asian Community. |
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Consider its hapless efforts to handle major national questions such as the troop dispatch to Iraq or the parliamentary ratification of the Korea-Chile free trade agreement. |
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The United States and Britain, sometimes considered the homes of free trade policy, employed protectionism to varying degrees at all times. |
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East Pakistani intellectuals crafted the Six Points which called for greater regional autonomy, free trade and economic independence. |
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By the 1840s, Britain had adopted a highly successful policy of free trade that gave it dominance in the trade of much of the world. |
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This has caused concern as the European Union has refused to conduct free trade negotiations at a regional level for these political reasons. |
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The FTAAP would create a free trade zone that would considerably expand commerce and economic growth in the region. |
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It is also affected by the absence of political will and popular agitations and lobbying against free trade in domestic politics. |
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The real problem with the English trading system was that it was based on tariffs and customs while the Dutch system was based on free trade. |
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The concept of free trade was an antithesis to the will and economic direction of the sovereigns of the ancient Greek states. |
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In 1799, the Dutch East India Company, formerly the world's largest company, became bankrupt, partly due to the rise of competitive free trade. |
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The ascendancy of free trade was primarily based on national advantage in the mid 19th century. |
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The lack of free trade was considered by many as a principal cause of the depression causing stagnation and inflation. |
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In 1947, 23 countries agreed to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to promote free trade. |
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Protectionism is the policy of restraining and discouraging trade between states and contrasts with the policy of free trade. |
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If a government removes all trade barriers, a condition of free trade exists. |
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Bright sat in the House of Commons from 1843 to 1889, promoting free trade, electoral reform and religious freedom. |
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In the election of 1852 Bright was again returned for Manchester on the principles of free trade, electoral reform and religious freedom. |
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The union of England and Scotland, which Anne had fervently supported, created Europe's largest free trade area. |
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Britain reduced tariffs and quotas, in line with David Ricardo's advocacy for free trade. |
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Economic historians see the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 as the decisive shift toward free trade in Britain. |
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The Nobel laureates, Milton Friedman and Paul Krugman, have argued for free trade as a model for economic development. |
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By the early Victorian period toll gates were perceived as an impediment to free trade. |
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Critical perspectives emerged in the nineteenth century that were especially based on the principles of free trade. |
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To secure benefits for the disadvantaged and the aged, he advocated free trade, low tax rates, and a more equal sharing of the tax burden. |
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By pushing for bailouts of companies and countries, Fites was really claiming, in a circuitous way, that free trade doesn't work. |
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The EU argues that the ACP should commit itself to open its markets and conclude free trade agreements. |
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The new constitution also emphasized human rights, social and political freedoms, and free trade. |
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The European Union, now the world's largest single market, has concluded free trade agreements with many countries around the world. |
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The free trade spirit of the time was augmented by the development of a modern, effective stock market in the Low Countries. |
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The British Empire embraced free trade and used its power as the financial centre of the world to promote the same. |
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The repeal of the Corn Laws by Robert Peel symbolized the emergence of free trade as an alternative system. |
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Their philosophies found the colonial enterprise, particularly mercantilism, in opposition to the principles of free trade and liberal policies. |
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As free trade thrives on exports of commodities, monopoly capitalism thrived on the export of capital amassed by profits from banks and industry. |
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At their inception, the Whigs were protectionist in economic policy, with free trade policies being advocated by Tories. |
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The most consistent practitioners of free trade have been Switzerland, the Netherlands, and to a lesser degree Belgium. |
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While it is true that free trade encourages globalization among countries, some countries try to protect their domestic suppliers. |
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Liberal ideas of free trade played a role in German unification, which was preceded by a customs union, the Zollverein. |
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When peace treaties were negotiated with the Romans, the Goths demanded free trade. |
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International free trade improved the country and in order for Americans to prosper from a strong economy they had no choice but to embrace it. |
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The middle classes and businessmen promoted liberalism, free trade and capitalism. |
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Thus, northern manufacturing interests supported tariffs and protectionism while southern planters demanded free trade. |
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When the fisheries policy was originally set up the intention was to create a free trade area in fish and fish products with common rules. |
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This division was in contrast to the Liberal Party's belief in free trade, which it argued would help keep costs of living down. |
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The Unionist government had become deeply divided over the issue of free trade, which soon became an electoral liability. |
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According to historian Oliver Dickerson, a desire for free trade was not one of the causes of the American Revolution. |
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Cobden was sent as Britain's representative to the negotiations with France's Michel Chevalier for a free trade treaty between the two countries. |
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Can public health protection and free trade go hand in hand? |
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Economists who advocated free trade believed trade was the reason why certain civilizations prospered economically. |
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It can also mean strong private property rights, contract enforcement, and overall ease of doing business as well as low barriers to free trade. |
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The notion of a free trade system encompassing multiple sovereign states originated in a rudimentary form in 16th century Imperial Spain. |
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Though it creates winners and losers, the broad consensus among economists is that free trade is a large and unambiguous net gain for society. |
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Commercial activities revolve around the country's free trade policies and strategic location as a Red Sea transit point. |
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Like Britain, a gradual liberalization of trade laws as part of the free trade movement meant less smuggling. |
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Governments may also restrict free trade to limit exports of natural resources. |
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When I voted back in 1975 for the Common Market I agreed with free trade between member states. |
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For a century, free trade remained the one cause which could unite all Liberals. |
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Thus, the EEA countries that are not part of the EU enjoy free trade with the European Union. |
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He entered Parliament as a member of the Conservative Party, holding strong protectionist Tory views and opposed to free trade. |
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Exceptions to the MFN principle also allow for preferential treatment of developing countries, regional free trade areas and customs unions. |
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There are several arguments on whether or not free trade has a correlation to an increased activity in the illicit drug trade. |
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Conservatism evolved after 1820, embracing free trade in 1846, and a commitment to democracy, especially under Disraeli. |
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The free trade agreement was thwarted by the United States, which saw Commonwealth preference to the UK as an economic threat. |
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At the 2005 Summit in Malta, the heads of government endorsed pursuing free trade among Commonwealth members on a bilateral basis. |
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The Marshall Plan, linked into the Bretton Woods system, also mandated free trade throughout the region. |
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The Americans were pushing the importance of free trade and European unity to form a bulwark against communism. |
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As a result, there have been an increasing number of bilateral free trade agreements between governments. |
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In the economic sphere, British informal empire was driven by the free trade economic system of the Empire. |
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The value of free trade in ideas does not depend on the assumption that there is an objective, perdurable truth to be discovered. |
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It is important to distinguish between arguments against free trade theory, and free trade agreements as applied. |
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Socialists frequently oppose free trade on the ground that it allows maximum exploitation of workers by capital. |
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Perhaps the greatest single benefit to Scotland of the Union was that she could enjoy free trade with England and her possessions overseas. |
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Economic arguments against free trade criticize the assumptions or conclusions of economic theories. |
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The relative costs, benefits and beneficiaries of free trade are debated by academics, governments and interest groups. |
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The site is located in a dedicated free trade area, neighboring Tanger Automotive City. |
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Most countries are also members of regional free trade areas that lower trade barriers among participating countries. |
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Bergsten praised DeLay because of the congressman's success in brutally forcing House Republicans to support free trade legislation. |
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His constituents, citizens of the great trading city of Bristol, however urged Burke to oppose free trade with Ireland. |
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The expansion project on the Panama Canal and the free trade agreement with the United States are expected. |
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The policy of free trade and openness to foreign investment attracted an influx of Europeans, principally from Britain and Germany. |
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Calhoun became a leading proponent of states' rights, limited government, nullification of the US Constitution, and free trade. |
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Apart from agriculture, economic and trade barriers between the European Union and Switzerland are minimal and Switzerland has free trade agreements worldwide. |
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From the outside, Lloyd George called for the party to abandon the government completely in defence of free trade, but only a few MPs and candidates followed. |
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Of course, such subsidies violate free trade theory, so this argument is not actually against the principle of free trade, but rather its selective implementation. |
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According to Lenin, the new imperialism emphasized the transition of capitalism from free trade to a stage of monopoly capitalism to finance capital. |
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Investors met with representatives of the Ajman Free Zone, and discussed the opportunities available in one of the emerging free trade zones in the world. |
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Under free trade the trader is the master and the producer the slave. |
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The treaty is aimed at promoting free trade among its members. |
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The Radical movement campaigned for electoral reform, a reform of the Poor Laws, free trade, educational reform, postal reform, prison reform, and public sanitation. |
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In foreign policy Britain favoured free trade, which enabled its financiers and merchants to operate successfully in many otherwise independent countries, as in South America. |
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While international free trade continues to expand the volume of legal trade, the ability to detect and interdict drug trafficking is severely diminished. |
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Economist Paul Krugman is another staunch supporter of globalization and free trade with a record of disagreeing with many critics of globalization. |
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Gladstone opposed increasing public expenditure on the naval estimates, in the tradition of free trade liberalism of his earlier political career as Chancellor. |
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Romer found, contrary to free trade skeptics' claims, while controlling for relevant factors, that trade does indeed have a positive impact on growth and incomes. |
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The 14 points of the 1971 Singapore Declaration dedicated all members to the principles of world peace, liberty, human rights, equality, and free trade. |
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Other initiatives have removed barriers to free trade in European regions, and increased the free movement of people, labour, goods, and capital across national borders. |
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In the 16th century, the Seventeen Provinces were the centre of free trade, imposing no exchange controls, and advocating the free movement of goods. |
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However, it was two early British economists Adam Smith and David Ricardo who later developed the idea of free trade into its modern and recognizable form. |
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As one of the world's leading international financial centres, Hong Kong has a major capitalist service economy characterised by low taxation and free trade. |
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Britain returned Dutch Caribbean territories to Dutch sovereignty, in exchange for free trade rights in the Dutch East Indies and control of the Indian port of Negapatnam. |
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A majority of Congress members were committed to free trade and European integration, and were hesitant to spend too much of the money on Germany. |
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The government also introduced free trade and universal education. |
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The literature analysing the economics of free trade is extremely rich with extensive work having been done on the theoretical and empirical effects. |
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It usually is built upon a free trade area with relatively free movement of capital and of services, but not so advanced in reduction of the rest of the trade barriers. |
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The Republic maintained free trade with France following France's declaration of war on Britain, citing a prior concession by Britain on this issue. |
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Free trade creates winners and losers, but theory and empirical evidence show that the size of the winnings from free trade are larger than the losses. |
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Trade policy is managed by the European Union, where Finland has traditionally been among the free trade supporters, except for agricultural policy. |
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As part of the United Kingdom and the European Union, Wales fully participates in the single market and free trade area which exists across all EU member states and regions. |
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There have been various proposals for a Commonwealth free trade zone. |
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Removing the tariff and having free trade would be a net gain for society. |
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After last year's debacle in Seattle over the World Trade Organization's meeting, there was hope that Davos devotees would re-affirm their faith in the benefits of free trade. |
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An economic analysis using the law of supply and demand and the economic effects of a tax can be used to show the theoretical benefits and disadvantages of free trade. |
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They are more sympathetic to immigration, free markets, and free trade, and less sympathetic to protectionism, make-work policies, and government intervention in business. |
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It has long been argued that free trade is a form of colonialism or imperialism, a position taken by various proponents of economic nationalism and the school of mercantilism. |
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Using the imperial tools of free trade and financial investment, it exerted major influence on many countries outside Europe, especially in Latin America and Asia. |
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