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0 pointsngcc_hk5y ago0 comments

You cannot sell certain service to china. That is not fair.

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India has a significant number of restrictions on free trade, and they are a functional democracy. So maybe its unfair to us, but its a democratic choice.

Further consider the advantage US has from being the center of global finance, and having many generations of wealth accumation compared to India and China being recent colonies and having recent devastating wars.

Is that trade policy still unfair taking those variables in account

sudosysgen5y ago

Canada tried selling planes to the US, we got hit by 200% tariffs.

the_mitsuhiko5y ago

That’s true for all countries though in some capacity.

koheripbal5y ago

Right - and it's unfair to the degree that it is true. For China it is MASSIVELY unfair - far far more than any other industrialized economy.

microcolonel5y ago

Here in Canada we should do away with our import controls on dairy as well. Advocates say it has to do with dairy quality standards, but that body of laws is completely separate from the one that institutes "supply management".

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