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The effort to make trading relationships between people easy and not exploitative, the intent of making all parties richer. Obvious examples include removing t
by hardlianotion 10y ago
The effort to make trading relationships between people easy and not exploitative, the intent of making all parties richer. Obvious examples include removing tariffs, harmonising standards and law where this is possible and agreeing procedures for conflict resolution.
- ZenoArrow 10y agoI see. In that case, are free trade and free trade agreements always the same thing? For example, if two countries strike up a free trade deal that protects the agriculture industries of those countries, do they do so in order to protect themselves from competition from other countries?
- hardlianotion 10y agoSeems clear to me that they are not. Same for many other ideals when compared with what is actually done in practice.