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To: GST who wrote (197640)	8/16/2006 10:30:53 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 281500

You think that trade could occur without the tens of thousands of standards and arrangements that trade parties have agreed? It could, in fact in the past it has. The only way there would be less trade is if politicians pass laws to block it. Now the politicians might very well might do so, so on the balance I support the international trade institutions, but trade can certainly exist without them. Support for the idea that truly free trade by countries lowering their trade barriers without any complex negotiations and institutions would be ideal, is hardly "siding with the apes who have the biggest club". Its deciding for real freedom and less coercion. Unfortunately that ideal is unlikely to be realized any time soon, so the international trade institutions still potentially server a useful function.

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