It would be ironic if the triumph of free trade and market economics in the emerging economies were to turn the rich world more protectionist and interventionist.
The basic idea behind free trade is the idea behind all free-market policies: Trade is voluntary.
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Mr. DEMIAN MOORE (Senior Policy Analyst, Taxpayers for Common Sense): It's completely antithetical to anybody with a free trade or free market philosophy.
To the contrary, it is a formula for unwarranted economic assistance to Moscow and, inevitably, for Soviet mischief-making in an important free market trade organization.
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None of this augurs well for Laos's bid to join the religiously free-market World Trade Organization.
The success story of Latin countries like Chile show that free trade and US-market access can help strengthen sustainable development and alleviate poverty.
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Free trade vastly expands the market opportunities for U.S. tech companies, while at home Americans get lower-cost consumer technologies that enable them to innovate and create.
"It's time for the U.S. to demonstrate that it will continue as the champion of free market and free trade, " Gao said.
"Under any circumstances it would be bad policy to allow a communist government with a centrally controlled economy to join an international organization based on free market and free trade principles, " Gaffney said.
Mr. MIKE BELL (GM Employee): Everybody understands that GM needs to make more money, be more profitable, be competitive, and it's, you know, it's a free market and free trade now, so I mean it's stiff competition out there and there's so many different vehicles.
He ruled as a reckless populist, presiding over economic collapse, hyperinflation, corruption and a murderous guerrilla insurgency by the Maoist Shining Path and the smaller MRTA. He narrowly won the presidency again in 2006, partly by convincing Peruvians that he was a reformed character who believed in market economics and free trade, and partly because his challengers were even less convincing.
The European Union was fine as a market place to foster free trade.
Mr McCain offers orthodox supply-side solutions, stressing deregulation, free trade, competitiveness and the use of market mechanisms to cure the problems in everything from health care to education to pensions.
The scandal has created a split between nations like Britain which see further rules as a protectionist hindrance of free trade under the bloc's single market, and those calling for tougher regulation.
True to his word, Garcia has followed free market policies, signing free trade agreements with the United States, Canada and Singapore, and pursuing free trade deals with China, the European Union and Chile.
After many years of war and, before that, a brutal regime, it's going to take time to further develop civil society, further develop the institutions of trade and commerce and the free market, so that the extraordinary capacity of the Iraqi people is fully realized.
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Democratic forces in Latin America got the impression that the U.S. is no longer interested in actively supporting democracy, market economies, or free trade - very discouraging to those who have followed the U.S. lead and struggled to advance the region over the last 20 years.
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South Korea has promised to open up its legal market to outsiders under a Free Trade Agreement with the European Union that should be ratified later this year.
Conversely, entering the global market via well-negotiated free trade agreements will allow America to continue being the most innovative country in the world and a strong player in the global economy.
That means boosting productivity through labour-market reform, immigration policies and free trade, none of which the ruling Democratic Party of Japan has been keen on so far.
There is an apparent contradiction between most economists' support for free trade, low taxes and less intervention in the market and the low marks many give to Mr McCain, who is generally more supportive of those things than Mr Obama.
Numerical targets lead to managed trade, which flies in the face of the free market system, most notably by deviating from the principles of economic efficiency and well-being embodied in the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement.
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They insist any rejection or doubt of the GM-free status of Indian rice in the global market could threaten their trade.
When people try to shoehorn these issues into the free-market framework, what ends up happening is that one side of these trade-offs gets ignored.
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This risk-free arbitrage trade locked in a small profit for the institutional investor and kept the SuperUnit market price in line with its underlying value.
He has squandered valuable time in which to advance free-market principles throughout the region by waiting for three years to present free trade agreements with our allies Colombia and Panama to Congress for ratification.
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In a free market, health care is a good that you have to earn through voluntary trade.
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Canadian President, Steven Harper, completed a visit to Canada's third largest South American export market, lauding Uribe's measurable successes in improving security and recommending free trade as a tool for sustainable economic development.
In addition to achieving economic growth, Peru has also successfully implemented market friendly policies, and increased property rights while recently ratifying a mutually beneficial Free Trade Agreement with the United States.
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