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Originally Posted by Squat
Free trade is good when it is really free : what we have today is a heavily subsidized US agriculture vs a non-subsidized dominican agriculture. This is not free in my book, this is unfair, this is cheating, or more, I would say, this is a very cynical way to destroy the dominican agriculture.
I am not an expert on Taiwan, so I haven't commented on that free-trade, but I would be interested to learn about the reality of this nation.
I'll be open to Free trade whenever no one is subsidized (or both subsidized at the same level...)
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Then let's do away with the Free Trade Zones and see how that affects the Dominican economy.
100% "free trade" anywhere is a pipe dream by your definition. Isn't fuel subsidized by the DR gov't? Then industries that use it aren't "free" either. Maybe the proper terminology is "Duty Free"...
I'm picking nits, but the Big Picture had Free Trade working better for 3rd World countries than the Big Bad US. Remember how accurate Ross Perot's "giant sucking sound". He was right.