what is the fair trade ?
920211
if you mean fair trade goods and coffee it hopefully means that whoever is buying it is making sure the producers are not mired in poverty and being oppressed in making the product.  That the producers of the item make a fair living wage (to eat and feed their kids and send the kids to school) and no one is being enslaved to create the product.
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It is your lucky Day because this plan is already a bill in the House (HR 25) and Senate (S 25) it is called the Fair Tax!!\n\nIt was developed by the finance department at MIT.\n\nAll products and services are taxed as the same rate but this tax is included in the posted price of the product BY LAW. (the receipt will show how much tax was paid)\n\nThis will eliminate the wholes in the tax system for interest groups and give people more freedom on how to use their money.\n\nFood is taxed but every household (may be dependent on income) gets a Pre-Bait check for all the cost of the tax on the basics of living for that month.  \n\nThere are no taxes on used products so no taxes at your garage sale or on your used house.\n\nNo tax on savings, investments, income, businesses, etc.\n\nThings are only taxed once at the retail level.\n\nI am personally excited about this and I think everyone should contact their Senator and Representative and tell them to support the Fair Tax!!
1186676
Free trade with low barriers to trading would and should not increase corruption or poverty in poorer nations. How could any one get that idea??\n\nAs in the marketplace, the old phrase "buyer beware" is still applicable. The biggest embarrassment I remember is allegedly Nestle was pushing their breast formula with free samples, and native Africans were not breast feeding since their breasts ran dry.\n\nBut with free trade, both buyer and seller benefit. The only alternative to free trade is to drop out of the "world game" and remain backwards. Isn't that pretty much the definition of a 3rd world country anyway??
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Free Trade Agreement (FTA or Free trade), in modern usage, trade or commerce carried on without such restrictions as import duties, export bounties, domestic production subsidies, trade quotas, or import licenses. The basic argument for free trade is based on the economic theory of comparative advantage: each region should concentrate on what it can produce most cheaply and efficiently and should exchange its products for those it is less able to produce economically. \nInternal Free Trade\nFree trade within national borders is in some countries a comparatively recent development. Jean Baptiste Colbert tried to abolish internal trade barriers in France in the 17th cent., but that was not accomplished until the French Revolution, a hundred years later. In the German states Prussia took the lead in organizing the Zollverein movement after 1818. The desire to assure freedom from internal trade barriers in the United States was a factor in calling the Constitutional Convention. In Britain, the classic home of the free-trade movement, the term free trade was first used during the agitation for removal of the privileges of the chartered companies in the 17th cent.\nInternational Free Trade\nIn 18th-century Britain, free trade eventually came to mean the desire for a moderate tariff policy in international trade, especially with France. The rapid growth of British industry in the late 1700s gave added force to the attack on international trade restrictions. Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776) provided a powerful intellectual basis for the free trade movement, and the later work of David Ricardo was important in developing the notion of comparative advantage as an argument in its favor. The most important practical blow in favor of the free-trade movement came with the formation (1839) of the Anti-Corn-Law League, and the repeal (1846) of the corn laws. The Anglo-French commercial treaty of 1860 represented perhaps the high-water mark of free trade. \nAfter World War I, Britain reintroduced protection and a system of imperial preference in an attempt to establish a greater measure of economic autonomy. France, along with other European nations, historically followed a policy of protection. In the period of international economic dislocation in the mid-1930s, the United States reversed earlier policy and signed reciprocal trade treaties with many foreign governments, embracing a policy of selective tariff reduction for economic and political reasons. At present the United States is a relatively low tariff nation, although it still maintains a fairly restrictive system of import quotas. Japan also has restrictive import quotas, as well as high tariffs and other trade restrictions.\nAfter World War II, strong sentiment developed throughout the world against protection and high tariffs and in favor of freer trade. The results were new organizations and agreements on international trade such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade General (1948), the Benelux Economic Union (1948), the European Economic Community (Common Market, 1957), the European Free Trade Association (1959), Mercosur (the Southern Cone Common Market , 1991), and the World Trade Organization (1995). In 1993 the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was approved by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. In the early 1990s the nations of the European Union (the successor organization to the Common Market) undertook to remove all barriers to the free movement of trade and employment across their mutual borders.\nCritics of free trade zones argue that such measures are detrimental to domestic economies. In the case of NAFTA, for example, opponents contended that the jobs of some American workers would be "exported" to Mexico, where labor costs are lower. Many have continued to oppose the international impetus toward freer trade, arguing the accords not only fail to protect jobs in more developed nations but also harm workers and
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Yes! At this time, I am for it...Of course, I plan to study this in depth...but so far it looks pretty good...and fair.\n\nThe FairTax: \n\nAbolishes the IRS \nCloses all tax loopholes and brings fairness to taxation \nMaintains our current Social Security and Medicare benefits \nBrings transparency and accountability to tax policy \nAllows American products to compete fairly \nReimburses the tax on purchases of basic necessities \nEnables retirees to keep their entire pension \nEnables workers to keep their entire paycheck
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If you mean when our country went from making things to buying things made in other countries, that's when someone decided that free trade would be good.  They should have made it fair trade, more even trading, instead of us importing some many goods and exporting so little.
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Any industry which is involved in some form of international trade, although they are not just taking. These companies are engaging in free trade. One end provides a product or service, while the other end provides some form of payment.  It is simply a matter of give and take.  This is free trade.
625011
Fairplay is playing by the established rules.
122424
Since when has life ever been fair
328007
Fair housing.  Get a copy of your tennants rights.
216035
Fair, Isaac, and COmpany.
377077
Make Trade Fair logo, = means fair.
784229
"Fair trade" businesses seem to be very hip-happenin' these days.  Just a thought though.
804742
means both sides are getting a good deal from the trade
753050
No - sounds like a fair exchange
884449
I am sorry I could not understand the difference either.  \n\nThe definitions are: "In international trade, free trade is an idealized market model, often stated as a political objective, in which trade of goods and services between countries flows unhindered by government-imposed prices." Otherwise commom market "is a customs union with common policies on product regulation, and freedom of movement of all the four factors of production (land, enterprise, capital and labour)."\n\nFor me it's looks like the same, the implications of that is that when you open all your barriers to other countries you could threat some not developed economical goods...for example...\n\nUSA wanted to integrate Brazil to NAFTA, but it's a very controversial issue for US farmers to accept a completely open market for Brazil's orange farmers (for example) as how Brazil's industries worry to open the market for US 'cause US has more capacity to invest in technology and marketing than Brazil industries, so it could happen to an "unfair" commerce.
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If I answer them.......will you clean my house?\n\n(fair trade right??) ;)