Posted by so on July 10, 2005, at 11:56:44
In reply to Re: Made in the USA » so, posted by alexandra_k on July 9, 2005, at 18:25:04
> Ok, I'll admit I know noting about any of those. I'm just thinking of how the US won't have a lot to do with us tradewise because of our nuclear free policy. I thought it kind of went 'do this or we won't trade with you'.
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> Probably my ignorance...
The US in 1999 imposed tariffs on lamb imported from NZ and Australia because increased imports were damaging the domestic lamb market. But imports from Canada, Mexico, Israel and the Carribean were not sanctioned with tarrifs -- apparently because they were not increasing imports as much.The US has done much to moderate the stateside impact of globalism, and US constituencies have fluxuated between protectionism and globalism, but the clear direction in the nation most able to project force in protection of trade... in the nation that plays host to the UN (but balks at payment of membership dues)... is toward open trade.
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