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Bill: Free Trade Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Progressive Conservative Party
Status[?]: passed
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 4043
Description[?]:
| Reduces barriers to free trade by eliminating tariffs. |
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 "ethical" tariffs on nations with lower environmental and labour rights standards.
Proposed: The nation does not impose any tariffs or quotas on imports.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:24:31, June 12, 2016 CET | From | Green Moderates Party | To | Debating the Free Trade Act |
| Message | We support this. The GMP does not support monetary-based tariffs. While protecting and promoting domestic industries is vital, tariffs and quotas are a form of blunt protectionism which only needlessly inflates the cost of imports and beneficially skews the economic slopes for domestic industrialists. If given the option, we would campaign for quality-based and/or resource-based standards in efforts to promote goods that are made well and under low intensity to the environment. We are less concerned with where a chair or computer is produced, but more that the products have not contributed to pillaged rainforests, support sweatshop conditions, degrade the status of women and children laborers, and fund foreign demagogues. |
| Date | 00:38:39, June 13, 2016 CET | From | Classical Liberal Party | To | Debating the Free Trade Act |
| Message | The Neo-Democratic Party would like to point out that the original policy on this issue was largely tariff free, only being used in the case of a foreign country imposing tariffs on goods produced in Gaduridos. |
| Date | 17:18:09, June 13, 2016 CET | From | Classical Liberal Party | To | Debating the Free Trade Act |
| Message | We oppose this bill, disappointed in the power the government will now lose to respond to a foreign power imposing a tariff or tariffs on goods produced in Gaduridos. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 552 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 198 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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