With the U.S. economy slowing down, lawmakers are particularly interested in removing trade barriers.
The utter stupidity of erecting trade barriers during a recession is well known (Smoot-Hawley, etc.).
Lower trade barriers, particularly in textiles and agriculture, are vital for these countries' economic prospects.
For trade barriers are the combination of such tariffs and laws with transport costs.
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The Democratic Party is almost uniformly opposed to pursuing further reductions in trade barriers.
Trade barriers, transport costs and differences in taxes drive a wedge between prices in different countries.
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Some agreement on antitrust law would help to stop private trade barriers replacing official ones.
In practice, Brazil's low-cost food may be shut out by rich countries' trade barriers.
To some extent, firms are responding to the artificial incentives offered by trade barriers.
Most depressing of all, even the mini-mill operators, led by Nucor, lobbied hard for trade barriers.
If this encourages America to raise trade barriers and others to retaliate, a global recession may follow.
Over the past decade COMESA helped its 20 member states reduce trade barriers and increase trade flows.
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But Fiat was slow to adapt to a more competitive market after the gradual removal of trade barriers.
It has agreed to cut numerous tariffs and to lower or remove a number of nontariff trade barriers.
The trade barriers Mr Bush repealed on Thursday were a comfort blanket, not a spur, for the industry.
However, there are those, I know, who think that tariffs, trade barriers, import restrictions, are very important policy tools.
Absolutely no one thinks there should be tariffs, trade barriers, down the middle of that town now, do they?
Venezuela and Ecuador, which take many of their manufactures, have imposed trade barriers.
And we agreed to keep working to reduce trade barriers and resist protectionism.
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In fact countries are better off if they unilaterally lower trade barriers, even if others do not follow suit.
So the more coordinated actions we take, the less there are trade barriers.
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Moreover, low-cost producers have a better chance of avoiding rich-world trade barriers with raw slabs than with finished products.
Yet with higher trade barriers, on average, than rich countries, they have the most to gain from further liberalisation.
So if you're going to drop trade barriers, maybe you can extend my patent rights to the foreign countries.
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Malaysia built a national car, the Proton, using trade barriers and government subsidies.
And as they also predicted, reducing and eliminating restrictive trade barriers has been a great boon to the world economy.
Another hot spot: Latin America, which may have the potential to explode as trade barriers fall and consumer markets grow.
In response, the US and Canadian governments imposed retaliatory trade barriers and took the dispute to the World Trade Organisation.
The result may be more acquisitions from abroad, which would give foreign firms a production base inside American trade barriers.
But the declines in the price of steam ship transportation were so great that the total trade barriers were falling.
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