-Caveat Lector-
>"Fair Trade" can only truly occur between countries with similar wages,
taxation schemes, subsidies, productivity, labor and environmental
standards, available land, land use laws, standards of living and natural
resource
bases. Reduction of trade barriers implies an imposition of uniformity
among most of these variables in order to achieve competitiveness.
No it doesn't. "Fair trade" means that each country is able to exploit its
competitive advantage whether in be in lower wages, energy costs whatever,
without being penalised by other countries through measures such as tariffs,
subsidies or the invoking of various standards designed to limit or prevent
the importation of certain goods which don't fulfill those standards. The
economic situation is no two countries, whether we are talking about, laws,
taxation, physical infrastructure, labour costs & availability, natural
resources, technical advancement, is exactly the same. Free trade & fair
trade are about allowing every country to exploit the export potential of its
natural advantage without being stymied by governments bowing to local
constituencies who want to tax consumers for the privilege of using imports,
or in the case of labour unions & First World environmentalists, by imposing
their preferred standards on other countries.
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