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To: Big Bucks who wrote (25059)	10/7/1998 11:30:00 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

BB: The problem is, who decides which are the "non-competitive priced products/goods"? Who decides when the "playing field" is "even"? You would have the government do it, which means it would be a political process, and the industries with the strongest lobbies, who donated the most soft money to political campaigns, would get proportionately "protected". This is economic nonsense. The only way to have a level playing field is to have transparency and market discipline. Free trade cannot survive, if large parts of the world are allowed to cheat, by subsidizing their exports. The solution is to stop the subsidies; and countries should be given incentives to do that. Strong incentives, if that's what it takes: "follow the rules of the free-trade club, or we kick you out".