NationStates Jolt Archive

The governments of Hell Bovines and Tanah Burung are pleased to announce that we have negotiated an exemption from the trade restrictions of the International Fair Trade Agreement. The IFTA normally allows signatories to trade only with each other.

In the interests of mutual friendship among the nations of the Third World Solidarity Conference, Hell Bovines and Tanah Burung have gained the agreement of our new trade partners in the IFTA to limited trade with our Third World partners. Tanah Burung and Hell Bovines undertake first to seek such goods as they need within the IFTA signatory body. If trade goods that they seek are not available within the IFTA, then they may seek them from Larkinia, Iansisle and/or Ziobia.

Since joining the IFTA, Tanah Burung's economy has grown from "developing" to "strong" on the strength of new trade deals with "tiger" economies like Xikuang and Celdonia. The IFTA is the largest and fastest-growing trading bloc in the world. It continues to welcome new signatories committed to trade that safeguards the rights of working people.

IFTA forum: http://invisionfree.com/forums/CACE/index.php?c=5

Hopefully, this exception will dispell any myths regarding the IFTA's role as a great conspiracy by the CACE to ravage the nubile maidens of the capitalist world's economies; both Larkinia and Iansilse were adamant critics of the IFTA and to the best of my knowledge, remain free marketeers.

I further hope that the government of Larkinia and Iansilse, as well as other who remain skeptical of the benefits of joining the IFTA, will reconsider their positions. The more nations that join the IFTA the more effective it becomes, guaranteeing living wages and worker rights within an open trade network.

Ibin Khalid
Special Officer, Ministry of Politics
SeOCC

Hopefully, this exception will dispell any myths regarding the IFTA's role as a great conspiracy by the CACE to ravage the nubile maidens of the capitalist world's economies...

Well, its only 2/3 a CACE conspiracy. We're up to 1/3 of the IFTA nations being non-CACE maiden ravagers. And climbing.

The news of Tanah Burung and Hell Bovines’ choice to continue long-established trade with Iansisle was greeted with relief by all but a few of parliament’s more right-wing members. Despite their suspect left-wing leanings, even the heads of major Iansislean corporations agreed that dealings with the two states had helped to fuel early Iansislean economic expansion. With its typical sloth and ineptitude, the massive bureaucracy of the Iansislean Ministry of Foreign Affairs rumbled into action, dispatching letters to the concerned parties.

Honored members of the Collective Presidency and His Grace the Duque of Hell Bovines,

News of your ability to secure continued trading contacts with Iansisle and the other Freedom Five members has at last reached the Shield. While Iansisle may not agree with your decision to tie your economy irrevocably to the second world in exclusion of all others, I do not write now to editorialize. Rather, I wish to thank you for choosing to keep open the paths of trade and for once again proving the wisdom inherent to your great states.

The Commonwealth ever has been and ever will be the friend of Hell Bovines Tanah Burung. May you find success in all your endeavors.

The Right Honorable Prime Minister of the Combined Parliament Hiresh Dhawan
In the name of His Imperial Majesty High King James III

The Serene Socialist Republic of Xikuang is most happy to back the exceptions made for IFTA signatories Tanah Burung and Hell Bovines in the cases of Larkinia, Iansisle, and Ziobia-- nations which have long-standing trade ties to Tanah Burung and Hell Bovines, and which, while not opting to sign the IFTA, maintain strong and meaningful commitments to worker rights. Far from undercutting the binding agreements undertaken by IFTA signatories, these exceptions only serve to strengthen the commitments shown by the IFTA membership towards IFTA aims.

"Tanah Burung and the Hell Bovines have pledged to seek goods first within IFTA nations, only if not finding them to go to these non-signatories-- and I may note that certain others were mentioned, and rejected, as not meeting the IFTA's high standards of fair trade." says member of the Elected General Committee for Economic Affairs Y'i Lhyamo. "The IFTA is designed to be a fair trade network, supporting worker rights and equitable trade relations between nations of divergent economic standing. We hope, naturally, that the potential partnes of our trade partners will eventually sign-- but it is the imperative of the ethically responsible treatment of the working people that ultimately motivates the IFTA. Those nations who uphold that imperative, whether or not they sign our agreement, are to be applauded."

The Serene Socialist Republic of Xikuang is most happy to back the exceptions made for IFTA signatories Tanah Burung and Hell Bovines in the cases of Larkinia, Iansisle, and Ziobia-- nations which have long-standing trade ties to Tanah Burung and Hell Bovines, and which, while not opting to sign the IFTA, maintain strong and meaningful commitments to worker rights. Far from undercutting the binding agreements undertaken by IFTA signatories, these exceptions only serve to strengthen the commitments shown by the IFTA membership towards IFTA aims.

"Tanah Burung and the Hell Bovines have pledged to seek goods first within IFTA nations, only if not finding them to go to these non-signatories-- and I may note that certain others were mentioned, and rejected, as not meeting the IFTA's high standards of fair trade." says member of the Elected General Committee for Economic Affairs Y'i Lhyamo. "The IFTA is designed to be a fair trade network, supporting worker rights and equitable trade relations between nations of divergent economic standing. We hope, naturally, that the potential partnes of our trade partners will eventually sign-- but it is the imperative of the ethically responsible treatment of the working people that ultimately motivates the IFTA. Those nations who uphold that imperative, whether or not they sign our agreement, are to be applauded."

As said before by our noble Tanah Burungian friends, a trade exception has been given to us. This is a proof to non-IFTA signatories, that the IFTA and its members are indeed very sensible and comprehensive nations and that this treaty is perhaps the best way to adquire access to one of the largest trading groups of our world. This trading group, unlike many others, not only helps you to boost your economy, but also does it by trading fairly and respecting workers' rights, something many others economic treaties don't manage to do.
We thank the nations of SeOCC, Xikuang, Watfordshire, Biotopia and others for their understanding in our difficult position and the noble nation of Tanah Burung, as they have been our companions in this problem.
We are grateful to tell to the fellow nations of Larkinia, Iansisle and Ziobia that our strong friendship will continue being strong and hopefully, will last forever.
Lastly, we strongly recommend all nations who haven't done it yet, to join the IFTA, the only treaty that allows your economy to grow without violating workers' rights.
May your nations walk forward. Best wishes,

Mooo IV, Duque of The Grand Duchy of Hell Bovines


To The Right Honorable Prime Minister of the Combined Parliament Hiresh Dhawan,

We really apreciate your gratitude here, in Hell Bovines. We too believe our firendship will last forever and will be truly a pleasure to continue trading with you.
As always, we wish you the best of all lucks in you enterprises.
Best wishes,

The Duque Mooo IV

Honored members of the Collective Presidency and His Grace the Duque of Hell Bovines,

News of your ability to secure continued trading contacts with Iansisle and the other Freedom Five members has at last reached the Shield. While Iansisle may not agree with your decision to tie your economy irrevocably to the second world in exclusion of all others, I do not write now to editorialize. Rather, I wish to thank you for choosing to keep open the paths of trade and for once again proving the wisdom inherent to your great states.

The Commonwealth ever has been and ever will be the friend of Hell Bovines Tanah Burung. May you find success in all your endeavors.

The Right Honorable Prime Minister of the Combined Parliament Hiresh Dhawan
In the name of His Imperial Majesty High King James III

Violeta Bi Bere, the only incumbent to survive recent electoral challenges to members of the collective presidency, immediately called in the press to show that her diploamcy was still paying dividends. There's always another election just around the corner, after all. Then taking pen in hand -- she always preferred to hand-write her letters -- she began to write her reply.


Esteemed Prime Minister Dhawan,

I received your note with a joyful heart. Like the Grand Duque, my colleagues and i pledge our continued and undying friendship to your great nation.

Dearest Prime Minister, allow me to trespass a step further on your time, and point out that we have not tied our economies irrevocably to the second world. Instead, we are embarked on an exciting new project in managed trade that we hope will end some of the worst abuses of the rights of working people. Still, we remain very pleased to count the great entrepots of Iansisle among the ports of call for our traders, confident that your government, like mine, is engaged in a similar effort to humanize economics. In the words of David Suzuki: "Economies exist to serve people. Not the other way around."

But i am rambling, and presuming too much, perhaps. Dare i hope that one day Iansisle will join us in the IFTA?

Putting down her pen, she laughs to herself. Yeah, that's real likely Violeta. His corporations would eat him alive if he even mentioned IFTA.