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To: TobagoJack who wrote (65483)	8/16/2010 9:16:54 AM
From: Hawkmoon	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218227

hamoon, opium was illegal in china. so, yes, i see your point. now tell me, where do you sit w/r to mexican products flooding into usa Opium, as well as most other non-pharmaceutical drugs are illegal in Mexico as well. Again.. opium, rightly or wrongly, was legal in the British Empire during the "opium wars". And the reason the Chinese people couldn't purchase British goods was because the Emperor maintained tightly closed port facilities and control over international trade in hopes of exporting without having to import. This resulted in large trade surpluses, artificially created by these protectionist policy, that was draining European reserves of precious metals. Also called Mercantilism. Hawk