So, err, what was that failure of free trade policy again Ian?
By questioning free trade policy, I instantly flag myself as a crank.
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It oversees, among other things, external trade policy, the policing of internal free trade, competition policy and much environmental policy.
Three weeks ago, my administration and Congress agreed on a new trade policy that will be applied to free trade agreements with Peru, Colombia, Panama and South Korea.
This would be a costless foreign policy that would very much boost our security for free trade among countries remaining the single best foreign policy of all.
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Mr Weld's world-view, on the other hand, exemplifies the other pillar of Republican foreign policy: free trade.
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The policies supported by the Declaration of Innovation cover four critical areas of economic policy: free trade, immigration, wireless broadband and government spending.
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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In a Cato Free Trade Bulletin released this morning, Scott Lincicome and I update and reinforce the comprehensive case for free trade that we have been making at the Center for Trade Policy Studies since 1998.
When he came to power, relations with Latin America were a priority one of Mr Bush's few specific foreign policy aims was a Free Trade Agreement of the Americas.
It takes little more than a nod to get me started on free trade, land use controls, patent policy, employment discrimination laws, public unions, drug regulation and tort reform.
The gist of the policy is to free normal trade with Iraq, while clamping down on arms a well-trodden idea that even one Iraqi minister in Amman conceded was reasonable.
Mr Harper has followed suit: although he has talked of a hemispheric foreign policy and signed free-trade deals with Colombia, Panama and Peru, he is now working on aligning Canadian and American security measures and regulations.
Dr. Manheimer wears his bleeding heart on his sleeve, often veering into rants against immigration policy, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the fast-food industry, the prison system, foster care, mental-health treatment programs and the health-care system generally.
Another involves trade policy, where economic populists in the party are less friendly to expansion of free trade and more concerned about U.S. workers under pressure from foreign competition.
EU's common agricultural policy was originally devised to secure free trade in farm products within Europe by paying the same guaranteed prices to all, and to use these payments to stabilise farmers' volatile incomes.
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Mr. Obama's emphasis on pursuing new pacts comes as he makes his way through an export-dependent region that has grown nervous about his trade policy, and skeptical about his willingness to use political capital at home to support free trade.
And they may pioneer new ideas which can later be taken up multilaterally: the Australia-New Zealand free-trade agreement, for example, deals with competition policy, which the World Trade Organisation has not yet touched.
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Free trade is a much better, and much more wealth enhancing policy for keeping the peace.
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President Obama, for example, has been disastrous on trade policy in his first two years, ignoring pending free trade agreements, snubbing a current trade agreement with Mexico, and slapping tariffs on some specific Chinese products.
Legislators hope this new policy will help the Bush administration's push for free trade, an effort that's been complicated by the U.S. rising trade deficit.
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.
These often concern macroeconomic questions such as monetary policy and fiscal discipline, and the means of globalisation, such as free trade and foreign investment.
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Trade policy is the Third Rail of Economics, because economists tell ourselves that free trade is the one thing all reasonable economists can agree on.
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That is because we may have just seen the end of the free-trade consensus that has been at the core of U.S. international economic policy for both parties since World War II.
Aside from a free trade agreement with Europe, there was little else in this State of the Union that hinted at foreign policy ambition.
Mr. Capitalism ought to realize that the case for free trade does not end when BTUs enter into the conversation and that energy independence provides few economic or foreign policy advantages despite widespread belief to the contrary.
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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.
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