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Tarrif Removal and Ban Act

Ski Town
29-03-2006, 02:37
Tariff Removal and Ban Act

A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.



Category: Free Trade


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Ski Town


Description: Defines:
Tariff- a tax on goods being imported into a nation

Recognizes:
1. Tariffs only serve the purpose of allowing governments to profit from the goods produced by other nations thus hindering free trade.

2. Tariffs are pulling money away from the economy that could be better spent on investments that would benefit the economy of your nation.

3. By removing tariffs we would put more money in the global economy which would make the global economy much stronger.

Mandates:

1. All nation's must remove the tariffs they currently have in place thereby no longer taxing any imports brought in from any nation. this will also apply to countries that you may currently be at conflict with as it would not be right for you to benefit from a conflict with another country by imposing heavy tariffs on their goods.

2. No nation will be able to put a new tariff in place as this will only be for the benefit of the government of that nation and not in the best interests of the economy of that nation.

3. In a time of extraordinary international crisis you will be able to refuse trade from certain nations or ban trade from certain nations in order to support nations that you are allied or strongly aligned with , but again you will not be able to impose a tariff, even in such an extreme event, as it would only create a position where your government would be profiting from an international conflict. However trade refusals and bans will only be allowed during these times of conflict and crisis, if used at any other time they will be deemed illegal by this resolution.

Creates:
The U.N. Free Trade Committee which will investigate trade refusals or bans to determine whether the trade refusal was created as a result of world crisis or conflict. Also this committee will investigate any possible infractions of this resolution in order to put an end to any illegal tariffs, trade refusals, or trade bans.

If this resolution is violated, the U.N Free Trade Committee will hold the right to ban trade with a nation by any U.N. member nation until they comply with this resolution at which point the trade ban on said nation would be lifted and free trade with the violating nation would resume as normal.

Approvals: 0

Status: Lacking Support (requires 124 more approvals)

Voting Ends: Sat Apr 1 2006



Well there it is, if you like it support it, and if you have eny suggestions, edits, or good arguments on why you don't like it or find it unnecessary then go ahead and post those for me to look at too as they may give me ideas for future edits.
Fonzoland
29-03-2006, 03:09
Well there it is, if you like it support it, and if you have eny suggestions, edits, or good arguments on why you don't like it or find it unnecessary then go ahead and post those for me to look at too as they may give me ideas for future edits.

Good, another free trader. Get your ass down to the FAIRTRADE forum now.
(See my sig for the link.)
(Don't let the name fool you, we share your intentions.)

Now, for the proposal:

- There are a whole lot of other things that you need to ban, like import quotas and production subsidies, for this to be effective.

- Protectionism to fund the government is an outdated concept. Modern protectionism aims to discourage competition and artificially make national companies competitive.

- A free trade commission was already created by a passed resolution, the Food whatever thing (I am too lazy to post a link, but you can find it in the stickies). This commission can be reused, as in the Auto Free Trade Agreement currently being submitted.
Compadria
29-03-2006, 10:01
To be blunt, the resolution is unacceptably extreme. It offers no reasonable exceptions and would not assist the furthering of free trade, but merely trigger a dangerous economic free-for-all.

Tariff Removal and Ban Act

A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.



Category: Free Trade


Strength: Strong


Proposed by: Ski Town


Description: Defines:
Tariff- a tax on goods being imported into a nation

Recognizes:
1. Tariffs only serve the purpose of allowing governments to profit from the goods produced by other nations thus hindering free trade.

Agreed.

2. Tariffs are pulling money away from the economy that could be better spent on investments that would benefit the economy of your nation.

Are we really going to legislate economic policy this thoroughly?

3. By removing tariffs we would put more money in the global economy which would make the global economy much stronger.

By banning all tariffs, you omitt tariffs that might be put in retalitation for unfair practices by business, unsavoury practices by a trade partner or to conform with regulation. This, in our opinion, needs to be considered and the definition of tariff precisised.

Mandates:

1. All nation's must remove the tariffs they currently have in place thereby no longer taxing any imports brought in from any nation. this will also apply to countries that you may currently be at conflict with as it would not be right for you to benefit from a conflict with another country by imposing heavy tariffs on their goods.

Wait, we aren't allowed to put tariffs on goods from nations we're fighting with? Never mind the fact we wouldn't be trading with them anyway, but if you think we're going to just be forced to accept trade from nations that are fighting us, then quite frankly, Go To Hell.

2. No nation will be able to put a new tariff in place as this will only be for the benefit of the government of that nation and not in the best interests of the economy of that nation.

See argument about differentiation of purpose.

3. In a time of extraordinary international crisis you will be able to refuse trade from certain nations or ban trade from certain nations in order to support nations that you are allied or strongly aligned with , but again you will not be able to impose a tariff, even in such an extreme event, as it would only create a position where your government would be profiting from an international conflict. However trade refusals and bans will only be allowed during these times of conflict and crisis, if used at any other time they will be deemed illegal by this resolution.

What if we dislike a nations human rights record? Or international policy (even if it doesn't apply to us)? Are we forced to trade with them?

If this resolution is violated, the U.N Free Trade Committee will hold the right to ban trade with a nation by any U.N. member nation until they comply with this resolution at which point the trade ban on said nation would be lifted and free trade with the violating nation would resume as normal.

And non-U.N. nations? Are they included?

May the blessings of our otters be upon you.

Leonard Otterby
Ambassador for the Republic of Compadria to the U.N.