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Bill: Fairer Trade with Fair Tariffs
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kazari Militarist Movement
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: April 2657
Description[?]:
| Some of our trade partners refuse to freely take in Rutanian goods and products. This not only has an adverse effect on our economy but it is also an insult on the workingmen of Rutania. Rutania is a nation that has prospered on the base of commerce and it should continue to do so through wiser commercial and trading practices. -Dr. Carl Mao, economist from the Martin Mann Institute of Keynesian studies and advocacy. |
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 does not impose any tariffs or quotas on imports.
Current: The nation imposes reciprocal tariffs on imports, with no tariffs imposed on states which impose no tariffs on our exports.
Proposed: The nation imposes reciprocal tariffs on imports, with no tariffs imposed on states which impose no tariffs on our exports.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:43:21, October 20, 2008 CET | From | Rutanian Democratic Forum | To | Debating the Fairer Trade with Fair Tariffs |
| Message | No, we are fr open trade and open market. |
| Date | 21:12:01, October 20, 2008 CET | From | Rutanian Restoration Party | To | Debating the Fairer Trade with Fair Tariffs |
| Message | I also believe we are in some sort of Free Trade Agreement. But I am totally against any sort of tariffs. Let the free market work around such issues, not the government. William Durden, Orange Party |
| Date | 21:12:10, October 20, 2008 CET | From | Rutanian Restoration Party | To | Debating the Fairer Trade with Fair Tariffs |
| Message | I also believe we are in some sort of Free Trade Agreement. But I am totally against any sort of tariffs. Let the free market work around such issues, not the government. William Durden, Orange Party |
| Date | 21:19:27, October 20, 2008 CET | From | Rutanian Restoration Party | To | Debating the Fairer Trade with Fair Tariffs |
| Message | OOC: Sorry my internet screw up and I thought it didn't go through, so I hit 'send message' again. |
| Date | 21:24:21, October 20, 2008 CET | From | Kazari Militarist Movement | To | Debating the Fairer Trade with Fair Tariffs |
| Message | We advocate benefitial trade, in that we are advocates of commerce that will not place Rutanian workers or the Rutanian economy at an unfair advantage. Besides, with this bill, we will not put tariffs on foreign goods unless the trading partner places tariffs on Rutanian imports first. -Dr. Carl Mao |
| Date | 13:32:35, October 21, 2008 CET | From | Federal Rutanian Libertarian Union | To | Debating the Fairer Trade with Fair Tariffs |
| Message | We will not hinder any sort of trade by imposing tariffs upon any nation's products. We wish for a free market where all goods can be sold without government interference. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 181 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 301 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 117 |
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| Random quote: "It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual" - Jeremy Bentham |