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Bill: CP.0136.2653 Trade Reform Bill + RP
Details
Submitted by[?]: Conservative Party
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: September 2654
Description[?]:
| Setting an example for other nations. In hope others will remove any threat of imposing tariffs. Resolution 1: ------------------ The Minister of Trade and Industry must maintain a list of nations that are against free trade. Sekowo will not allow any form of trade with a nation listed on this list. The list shall be updated on a quarterly basis. |
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 allows for imports, but imposes tariffs and quotas in certain areas.
Proposed: The nation does not impose any tariffs or quotas on imports.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 09:45:23, October 17, 2008 CET | From |  Conservative Party | To | Debating the CP.0136.2653 Trade Reform Bill + RP |
| Message | CP would like to add that the Sekowan government does unofficially practice this. For quite some time now. A good example would be the "Anti-Deltarian Trade Alliance" treaty (http://80.237.164.51/particracy/main/viewtreaty.php?treatyid=808) that Sekowo has ratified. CP believes this should become legal and this approach adopted officially. |
| Date | 10:05:15, October 17, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the CP.0136.2653 Trade Reform Bill + RP |
| Message | We prefer to see reciprocal tariffs than economic sanctions on countries which fail to practice free trade. As such, we currently oppose. |
| Date | 11:13:38, October 17, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the CP.0136.2653 Trade Reform Bill + RP |
| Message | CP fails to understand NPP's reasoning of why we should deal with people who don't want to play fair. Putting a sanction on them will send a clear message. |
| Date | 11:47:59, October 17, 2008 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the CP.0136.2653 Trade Reform Bill + RP |
| Message | The current law treats them as unfairly as they treat us. |
| Date | 23:26:29, October 17, 2008 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the CP.0136.2653 Trade Reform Bill + RP |
| Message | We're against. |
| Date | 23:05:07, October 18, 2008 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the CP.0136.2653 Trade Reform Bill + RP |
| Message | OOC: putting it forward for ideology purposes and to save in my records for further. |
| Date | 23:40:37, October 18, 2008 CET | From |  Imperial Pluralism Party | To | Debating the CP.0136.2653 Trade Reform Bill + RP |
| Message | This issue is not about "fairness." It is about economic advantage. The current law allows us to reject an unbalanced trade by using reciprocal tariffs directed specifically toward Sekowo. In the proposed law, other nations that are "against free trade" might not necessarily be against trading freely with us, but against trading freely with some other nations; they would still fall under this broad category. We would thus loose a free-trade opportunity out of idealism alone. Every economist agrees that free-trade is good for both trading partners, and we should thus do everything in our power to ensure it. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 99 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 501 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: Dorvik is a nation based on Germanic and old Prussian cultures, it is located on the far north of Artania, making it an almost arctic nation. |
| Random quote: "The people who vote decide nothing. The people who count the vote decide everything." - Joseph Stalin |