George: *You* miss the point when you say that the WTO agreement shows that "free trade" doesn't exist. *Of course* it doesn't exist. *It never existed* in the world economy (and only very occasionally in the trading relationship for firms in different nation-states). It is, like "free market capitalism", a *fiction* associated with bourgeois ideology that has had little, if anything, in common with the realities of capitalist history. Thus, the big surprise is the fact that *you* are surprised. Jerry --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---