There will be a big international conference on Anti-Illicit Trade (AIT) in Manila this coming October 13 organized by The Economist with the following speakers. Should be interesting.
https://events.economist.com/custom-events/global-anti-illicit-trade-summit-asia-agenda/.
And I just saw this, an AIT Institute (AITI) at George Mason University (GMU) in the US, https://traccc.gmu.edu/projects/current/anti-illicit-trade-institute/. I've visited GMU Fairfax, Virginia, US campus in 2004.
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Meanwhile, a good call by the Foundation for Economic Freedom (FEF) to have investment liberalization in rice and corn.
‘Government should allow full foreign ownership in rice, corn sectors’
Louella Desiderio September 8, 2022
When there is investment liberalization, quickly following usually is trade liberalization. The foreign investors would want to bring in modern technology and machines and raise productivity, and bring the surplus products or harvests abroad as merchandise exports.
We should liberalize all. Agriculture, mining, energy, education, healthcare, housing, alcohol, tobacco, vapes, pharma, etc. The only thing we should unliberalize and further bureaucratize are stealing, killing, abduction, corruption, etc.
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See also:
Free Trade 68, China is non-protectionist? Only Trump is protectionist? June 21, 2019
Free trade 69, US-UK FTA, August 25, 2019
Free Trade 70, Free trade should be separate from war, July 05, 2022.
Free Trade 68, China is non-protectionist? Only Trump is protectionist? June 21, 2019
Free trade 69, US-UK FTA, August 25, 2019
Free Trade 70, Free trade should be separate from war, July 05, 2022.