He has said he wants richer countries - particularly elsewhere in the European Union - to give up farming support in favour of a fair system of free trade.
The free-trade regime and global investment system promoted growth in the rest of Asia more than in Japan.
If other countries can simply take intellectual creations without paying for them, then wealthy nations have much less to gain from a free trade agreement and the entire world innovation system suffers.
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But that so-called empire arguably was the global rules-based system, committed to abolishing slavery and to free trade and free movement on the seas.
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The multilateral trading system recognises that governments have legitimate aims other than free trade.
However, this system then meets the fact that we absolutely have free trade between the various different countries in the European Union.
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He has privatized most of the country's state-owned industries, implemented a free-trade pact with the U.S. and revamped the school system.
Much as he wishes to be the apostle of orthodox economics and free trade, he cannot afford to seem insensitive to the losers in this system.
This includes the use of its trade preference system, which gives Bangladesh duty- and quota-free access to markets in member states.
Sound money is good policy, and economic efficiency (including lower taxes and free trade) will do most of the heavy lifting in a free, capitalist system.
The more volatile cap-and-trade system, however, is easier to sell to producers, who can get free allowances when the scheme is introduced.
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