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Wouldn't that violate our various free trade agreements and lose us our membership in the WTO?
by krakensden 17y ago
Wouldn't that violate our various free trade agreements and lose us our membership in the WTO?
- anamax 17y agoYou write that like membership in the WTO is necessarily a good thing. It isn't. International organizations range from "mostly harmless" to horrorshows. (The mostly harmless ones are a basically specialized phone books with an information exchange/meet people conference every year or so - think ACM.) Tariffs are a bad thing, but the US is a big enough gorilla that the WTO would figure out some way to accomodate the US in that circumstance.
- krakensden 17y agoLet me rephrase that. Pissing on _every_ _single_ other country we do business with by unilaterally ending free trade after we've spent decades setting up free trade agreements (and organizations like the WTO) seems like a suboptimal stratagem to me.
- anamax 17y agoYes, but that's different. It has almost nothing to do with membership in the WTO.