WTO, it might have avoided many of the local-content rules or at least been prepared for import competition.
There is no reason at all to assume that the jobs gained from export creation would exceed the jobs lost to import competition.
And it should look again at the domestic policies that support freer trade: notably, measures to assist workers whose jobs are displaced by import competition.
While they may be faced with more import competition, a shift to a policy of free trade could also open up export opportunities for these companies.
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Most Americans enjoy the fruits of international trade and globalization every day and in countless ways, and less than 3% of U.S. jobs loss is attributable to import competition or outsourcing.
The hikes were based on an exemption in the Mercosur trade agreement, a customs union made up of Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, that allows those countries to protect domestic markets from import competition in times of economic weakness.
All the more reason, perhaps, to eschew old-fashioned price-fixing, and to move ahead with the more sensible among their recent proposals, such as cutting import tariffs and encouraging competition.
Huge swathes of industry were protected from foreign competition by high import tariffs, leaving them moribund.
For one thing, it represents a serious missed opportunity to import foreign management expertise and competition to build a stronger economy.
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Showalter has been keeping his starters away from AL East competition, and he'll import a minor league pitcher to start instead of LHP Wei-Yin Chen.
In a brief spell as finance minister in 1994 (when he belonged to Mr Cardoso's party), Mr Gomes followed the sort of neoliberal policies he now criticises, such as cutting import tariffs to expose the local car industry to foreign competition.
When the Great Depression started to crush America, Congress took what seemed like the obvious action, imposing huge import tariffs, aiming to protect American workers by keeping out foreign competition.
Like GM and Chrysler, Ford had been busy making easy money from pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles (SUVs), which were more profitable and partly protected from competition because similar vehicles made by foreign producers were subject to import duties.
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