{"id":196027,"date":"2008-05-28T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/28\/african-leaders-get-the-finer-points-of-free-trade\/"},"modified":"2008-05-28T23:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T04:17:00","slug":"african-leaders-get-the-finer-points-of-free-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/28\/african-leaders-get-the-finer-points-of-free-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"African Leaders Get the Finer Points of Free Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a summit, they complained that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20080528\/wl_asia_afp\/africajapanaidtrade;_ylt=Ah9SJ5oa8zG_MdQjRoWYZBpvaA8F\">these deals allow for barriers to their products while requiring those of the industrialized nations into their markets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cotton is a classic case of this, where US subsidies allowed under the current regime undercut what would otherwise be competitive 3rd world supplies.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because &#8220;free trade&#8221; deals are really not about free trade.  They are about establishing an economic regime that favors stake holders such as investors and IP holders.<\/p>\n<p>If you look at the economic development of the US though, it was built on what is now called &#8220;piracy&#8221; of European, largely British, technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a summit, they complained that these deals allow for barriers to their products while requiring those of the industrialized nations into their markets. Cotton is a classic case of this, where US subsidies allowed under the current regime undercut what would otherwise be competitive 3rd world supplies. That&#8217;s because &#8220;free trade&#8221; deals are really &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1016],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-commerce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}