Free Trade: A Primer / Fundamentos de Libre Comercio
Español abajo Margaret Boehme, WfP Colombia Team What does Free Trade mean, exactly?
According to The Economist Magazine, it’s “the ability of people to undertake economic transactions with people in other countries free from any restraints imposed by governments or other regulators.” What kind of restraints?
Tariffs, for instance, which are taxes paid on certain imports or exports.
That doesn’t sound so bad. I don’t want to pay more than necessary for gas, electronics, cl