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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: GST who wrote (198690)8/23/2006 10:08:13 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
You keep going back to general standards of conduct. The issue is trade. Yes there are other international trade institutions, but they mostly involve treaties between particular countries. The EU countries have free trade between them. The US, Canada, and Mexico have NAFTA. There are a bunch of others. But the US Canada, and Mexico could have just jointly decided to not impose trade barriers on each other. They could have even reached such decision unilaterally. Such actions might be unlikely, but to say that the treaties and institutions are a requirement for free trade is to say that the idea of lowering trade barriers either through unilateral action or simple agreement is not just unlikely but rather totally impossible. And calling it impossible, just isn't correct.

The same is true on a larger scale with the WTO.
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