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To: pissant
You mean "trade," and not "free trade." We don't have a free trade agreement with China.

It seems like I'm splitting hairs, but it's nearly impossible to have a serious discussion about "free trade" (just as it is to have a serious discussion about "fair trade") if everyone makes up their definitions on the fly.

30 posted on 03/11/2008 10:18:05 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
You mean "trade," and not "free trade."

You know, rudeboy, that there is no true free trade between nations. There are various degrees of freedom of trade. The U.S. is way up there near the top of that list.

Then there are our trading partners, like Japan, that practice adversarial trade. Take for example the massive dumping of TV sets by Japanese conglomerates in the late 1970's that drove out most all US TV manufacturers (except Zenith, which hung on 10 years longer). At the time, U.S. trade representative Robert Strauss knew about the dumping but did nothing to stop it. Why, I wonder?

43 posted on 03/11/2008 11:05:27 AM PDT by trane250
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