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Does this mean that next we're going to unilaterally invade the WTO?
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That's what we're developing those unmanned bombers for, silly boy!
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Originally posted by Gatekeeper
Does the WTO ever rule against any other nation than the United States?
Pages 87 and following.“Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….” (Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)Comment
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Yes. Unfortunately you guys are also major annoyances when it comes to unfounded tarriffs...Originally posted by Gatekeeper
Does the WTO ever rule against any other nation than the United States?12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
Ultima Ratio RegumComment
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This is a good move. I didn't want to see the tariff in the first place, even though a short "time out" to restructure isn't an inappropriate policy.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Of course not. It was a political move and a genius one at that.
Bingo. Now Bush can just tell the big steel producing states (like West Virginia, etc) that he tried.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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Now Bush will likely tell them 'buisiness as usual'.Bingo. Now Bush can just tell the big steel producing states (like West Virginia, etc) that he tried.
The WTO rules against the US in Canada's favour 3-4 times a year on everything from magazines to softwood lumber. The usual US response is to ignore the ruling.
Another reason why even US allies dislike Dubbya.
There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer.Comment
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Canada should join the EU.“Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….” (Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)Comment
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If this is how they enforce rulings, it doesn't give me much hope for free trade.Originally posted by C0ckney
yes gatekeeper, the WTO has ruled in favour of the US several times, the bananas example is a trade dispute with the EU. basically EU countries gave special terms to former colonies for importing bananas which the US objected to, the WTO ruled against the EU and allowed the US to impose some tarrifs on some european goods.Comment
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It works between the US and the EU. The rest follows.“Now we declare… that the law-making power or the first and real effective source of law is the people or the body of citizens or the prevailing part of the people according to its election or its will expressed in general convention by vote, commanding or deciding that something be done or omitted in regard to human civil acts under penalty or temporal punishment….” (Marsilius of Padua, „Defensor Pacis“, AD 1324)Comment
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How many developed nations don't have domestic steel industries? Any who are dependent on foreign sources for their steel? Japan, perhaps?
Gatekeeper"I may not agree with what you have to say, but I'll die defending your right to say it." — Voltaire
"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart." — ConfuciusComment
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Please, please, please....Originally posted by HershOstropoler
Canada should join the EU.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
Ultima Ratio RegumComment
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yes enforcing free trade by imposing tariffs does seem like a very irish way of doing things, but since the world trade organisation regulates..err...trade, there's not a whole load of other sanctions they can impose.Originally posted by TCO
If this is how they enforce rulings, it doesn't give me much hope for free trade."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de BottonComment
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We have no allies.Originally posted by Uncle Sparky
Now Bush will likely tell them 'buisiness as usual'.
The WTO rules against the US in Canada's favour 3-4 times a year on everything from magazines to softwood lumber. The usual US response is to ignore the ruling.
Another reason why even US allies dislike Dubbya.
No sense in getting distracted by such emotional foolishness. Sometimes our interests coincide with other countries', other times not.
If we are to have true competition, let's go. I just wish we were allowed to compete in other markets like we allow others to "compete" (dump) here.
THe Euros, for example, subsidize Airbus obscenely, in order to keep unemployment a little less than catastrophic, and steal contracts from Boeing because they pay only a small portion of their true labor costs. But the Euros expect us to open our markets to such "free" competition, and we do, even for military contracts. We are truly stupid.
And then they say we are "unilateral" and "protectionist. HAH! If we really were, every other economy in the world would completely collapse.I'd rather have a German division in front of me than a French division behind me.--PattonComment
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Lonewolf, I think we should reduce tariffs ourselves, even if others don't. That way the consumer benefits and US companies are forced to be the most efficient in the world. This is the main reason that England became an economic powerhouse in the 1600s. They repealed tariffs on agricultural goods (the Corn Laws) and they skyrocketed.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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