free trade

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Mind Map on free trade, created by Maeve O'Neill on 12/05/2013.
Maeve O'Neill
Mind Map by Maeve O'Neill, updated more than 1 year ago
Maeve O'Neill
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free trade
  1. for free trade
    1. trade creates peace
      1. countries that trade are less likely to go to war
      2. mutual benefits
        1. comparative advantage
          1. exporting our products creates jobs in that industry
            1. importing goods from foreign countries creates diversity in products and cheaper products for the consumer and creates jobs in the selling markets
          2. against free trade
            1. merchantilism
              1. gold trade
              2. taking jobs from home workers and shipping them overseas
                1. cheaper products coming into country causing domestic industry to fail
              3. Barriers to trade
                1. tarrifs
                  1. government gains financially
                    1. restricts imports which creates domestic jobs
                    2. Quotas
                      1. same as tarrifs also but more restricting - depends on the Quota
                        1. can cause a market shortage
                      2. reducing trade bariers makes goods cheaper for consumers and imports cheaper for businesses
                      3. Free Trade Agreements make it easier & cheaper to export goods and services while creating jobs and boosting the economy
                        1. overall economic welfare is a gain
                          1. FTA's encourage investments which is an important part of Econ. Integ.
                            1. WTO - one country gains from FTA - all countries in WTO gain
                              1. WTO deals with the global rules of trade between nations to make sure trade flows smooth and as free as possible
                                1. doha round - set up to deal with deficiencies that existed in the WTO's already existing agreements
                                  1. it is 10 yrs old and difficult to work with
                                    1. it has becaome in favour of industrial contries which rather than dealing with the deficiencies in the system have added more
                                      1. competition policy, Gov. procurement and investment
                                    2. may be demolished - Geneva are discussing a new smaller round
                                      1. to look at different agri agrangements
                                        1. US & EU would come together and create a package on how to deal with their subsidies with a view to lowering them over a period of time
                                          1. also to look at market excess issues for products from the global south to enter the markets of the EU & US
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