#free trade

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#act #free #free trade #liberty #much

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#free #free trade #justice #trade #utility

Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization - including, notably mercantilist China and monopolist Saudi Arabia - have been allowed in, to the detriment of both the WTO and the liberal trading environment it is supposed to sponsor. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#arabia #been #both #china #countries

The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#century #circumstances #conscious #first #free

Likewise, free trade does not, as evidenced in CAFTA, mean fair trade. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#does #evidenced #fair #fair trade #free

Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how to alleviate the adverse consequences of trade liberalization on the poor. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#agreement #alleviate #america #central #consequences

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#capitalist #commercial #directed #economy #free

Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present. ↗

— Bob Ney

#barriers #before #consequences #efforts #forward

Free Tibet before free trade. ↗

— Zhu Rongji

#free #free trade #tibet #trade

American consumers benefit from free trade and investment. ↗

— John Shadegg

#american consumers #benefit #consumers #free #free trade