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Bill: Fair Trade Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Patriotic Front
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: February 2251
Description[?]:
| A bill to institute fair trade. When a foreign nation imposes import tariffs on our goods, we should not allow them to freely import their goods into our nation. |
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 allows for imports, but imposes "ethical" tariffs on nations with lower environmental and labour rights standards.
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 | 02:23:10, July 07, 2006 CET | From | Partido Socialista | To | Debating the Fair Trade Bill |
| Message | An excellent piece of legislation. The Social Democrats are fully behind this bill. |
| Date | 16:36:30, July 07, 2006 CET | From | Democratic Liberal Party | To | Debating the Fair Trade Bill |
| Message | Free trade is fair trade. |
| Date | 16:40:06, July 07, 2006 CET | From | Patriotic Front | To | Debating the Fair Trade Bill |
| Message | Care to elaborate, or will you just throw blank platitudes around? When a nation effectively denies us the opportunity to import our products into their state, why should we allow them to import their products into Aloria? |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 279 |
| Random fact: When elections in a country are held, all bills in the voting phase are reset to the debate phase. |
| Random quote: "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire |