| Trade is good, and International Trade builds | | | | numbering all us business people. |
| long-term friendly relationships. Unfortunately, due to | | | | If someone in Vietnam can get a better deal on |
| political, economic, and monied interests we have | | | | incoming or out-going air cargo services, this is good |
| quite a bit more trade disputes than we should have. | | | | for them, is it not? Sure it is, even if South Korea |
| Our International Trade Laws and Rules are being | | | | files a dispute with the WTO about Japanese Air |
| abused for short-term gain, and thus, destroying | | | | Cargo airlines engaged in price-fixing, while at the |
| trust. Without trust, friendly, honest, free, and fair | | | | same time adds a 747 cargo aircraft to the fleet of |
| trade cannot exist long-term. | | | | one of its air cargo airlines. |
| When it comes to many of these trade laws and | | | | When a rural Chinese citizen can get a lower cost |
| trade rule violations the issue is really one of "intent" | | | | chicken dinner, this is preferable right? Sure it is, even |
| and many of these trade violations are due to the | | | | if China files an anti-dumping trade dispute with the |
| ruthless game of business. But we must be careful | | | | WTO in retaliation for an anti-dumping tariff placed on |
| because if we use the rules as an attack vehicle to | | | | the tires it sends to the USA. If a US middle class |
| wage economic trade wars, we lose a friend, and | | | | consumer can save money buying tires for their cars, |
| those are so very hard to come by in this world of | | | | do you really hear them complaining? Of course not, |
| ours - and you know, we all need each other very | | | | unless they are a union worker who works a tire |
| much. | | | | factory. |
| Lastly, I'd like to point out the reality from the | | | | If a company or nation attempts to grab a short |
| consumer's perspective when it comes to | | | | term gain by filing a trade dispute for political reasons, |
| anti-dumping rules and it goes something like this; | | | | it destroys trust, just like if a company engages in |
| "How on Earth is a consumer damaged when they | | | | ruthless competitive in the market place against its |
| get a lower price?" They aren't, they win, which is a | | | | free-market enterprise rivals in another nation. Please |
| good thing, because it keeps consumers and people, | | | | consider all this, and let's do some trading. |
| remember there are some 7 Billion of them, far out | | | | |