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Bill: Free Trade Restoration Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Movement for Freedom
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: May 2483
Description[?]:
| Import tariffs only hurt our consumers. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change International trade (this is a default in the absense of a specific free trade agreement or specific trade embargo)
Old value:: The nation imposes reciprocal tariffs on imports, with no tariffs imposed on states which impose no tariffs on our exports.
Current: The nation imposes reciprocal tariffs on imports, with no tariffs imposed on states which impose no tariffs on our exports.
Proposed: The nation does not impose any tariffs or quotas on imports.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:29:56, November 08, 2007 CET | From |  Endralon Confederates Party | To | Debating the Free Trade Restoration Act |
| Message | Maybe, but not having tariffs on countries that charge tariffs on our products severly injures our economy. A "mirror" policy like we have is the best policy. |
| Date | 16:25:34, November 08, 2007 CET | From | Movement for Freedom | To | Debating the Free Trade Restoration Act |
| Message | OOC: If you look at how Hong Kong thrived by unilaterally removing trade barriers, you'll see some proof that this is not the case. |
| Date | 22:10:49, November 08, 2007 CET | From | Endralon Confederates Party | To | Debating the Free Trade Restoration Act |
| Message | OOC: If you'll look at the huge American trade deficit, you see the product of not putting tariffs on foreign goods, and allowing them to tariff our goods. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 133 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 300 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 15 |
| Random fact: Don't put "the" as the first word in your party name, because when parties are referred to in news reports, their names are preceded with "the", e.g. the [Socialist Party] has lost. |
| Random quote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair |