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To: bentway who wrote (197671)	8/16/2006 12:48:40 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 281500

A low trade barrier is still regulated trade, but it doesn't require the WTO, and it isn't (as you asserted) putting trade "back in the stone age". In any case I wasn't talking about low trade barriers in the post you replied to, but rather a situation where the US "set all tariffs to zero, and removed all import barriers on goods or services that are legal to sell in the US". In other words no trade barriers, not "a low trade barrier". I ask again, would that turn the US in to Somalia? Would it put our trade "back in the stone age? If so, how?