[Rudder]

...free trade in principle

Which is what? Free trade is not unfettered trade...but exactly what is "free trade" in principle? I'll bet it's tough to find a clear definition of this term--any takers?

[1rudeboy]

I wonder if the fact that the U.S. and Australia just signed a free-trade agreement has anything to do with the fact that this Aussie newspaper went fishing for a poll.

[A. Pole]

Which is what? Free trade is not unfettered trade...but exactly what is "free trade" in principle? I'll bet it's tough to find a clear definition of this term--any takers?

Free trade means the removal of the national borders in economy (primarily removal of tariffs) and transferring the economical sovereignity from the nation state to the private international owners while the workers become the freely traded commodity without having any claims based on shared nationality or citizenship.

Remaining national institution like military and police are to be paid by the workers while defending the private wealth. The redistribution of income is to be reduced or eliminated.

[A. Pole]

[Rudder:] Which is what? Free trade is not unfettered trade...but exactly what is "free trade" in principle? I'll bet it's tough to find a clear definition of this term--any takers?

Free trade means the removal of the national borders in economy (primarily removal of tariffs) and transferring the economical sovereignity from the nation state to the private international owners while the workers become the freely traded commodity without having any claims based on shared nationality or citizenship.

Remaining national institution like military and police are to be paid by the workers while defending the private wealth. The downward redistribution of income is to be reduced or eliminated.

[FITZ]

A document that is thousands and thousands of pages long is not about freedom or free anything. You can get the definition of free trade if you decide you have some products you'd like to sell over in Mexico --- see what happens when you try to make it over -- it's not free trade ---not close.