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The Political Case for Free Trade

In: The Politics of Economic Interdependence

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  • Edmund Dell

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Free trade these days needs all the support it can get. If therefore it can be shown that freer trade has a beneficial effect on the quality of international relationships, the conclusion will be welcome to anyone who cherishes freedom in international commercial transactions. Henderson argues thus: ‘contemporary trade interventionism has damaging consequences for the international system of states.’ It creates endemic friction between governments. Exercises in the use of economic power, for example against developing countries and against Japan, treat the countries concerned as second class members of the international community and represent a departure from ‘the principle of the equality of states’. Finally, trade interventionism can undermine attempts to bring order into international economic relationships by bringing into question the rules and procedures of the GATT (Henderson, 1983, p. 15).

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  • Edmund Dell, 1987. "The Political Case for Free Trade," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Politics of Economic Interdependence, chapter 14, pages 195-202, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-18874-1_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-18874-1_14
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