But it's not free trade

So you're only willing to call it free trade if literally everything has no tariffs applied to it

And the EU is the worst example with it's mercantilist policies

Because that's a ridiculous threshhold

> So you're only willing to call it free trade if literally everything has no tariffs applied to it
@Mr. Nessel
Yes

The EU has very few protectionist measures at this point

Hahahhaha

And they pretty much all relate to agriculture

Read some EU regulations

Then we talk again

Regulations are not tariffs

They are non tariff barriers

They implicitly higher the costs of not complying products

That's still not a negation of free trade

That's btw also, what is in the GATT and WTO terms

Nobody is forcing China to produce low quality garbage

But what noone seems to actually care about

Yes, because there is a demand for low quality garbage

Not everyone is rich

No wonder considering free trade is a thing

> And they pretty much all relate to agriculture
@Mr. Nessel
And now guess where all the comparative adventages of most developing countries are

Hahahhaha

Let's fuck Africa and the middle East in the ass

Comparative advantage isn't a thing outside the primary sector

And yes

Oh yeah, it's just protection fkr our farmers

> Comparative advantage isn't a thing outside the primary sector
@Mr. Nessel
Bullshit

I don't even like tariffs on primary sector stuff for that reason

Tell me why a factory in China has a comparative advantage to just being in Germany

Labour costs are variable

As is tech

It has to be magic soil making the factory work better

> Tell me why a factory in China has a comparative advantage to just being in Germany
@Mr. Nessel
I don't understand the question

Do you understand comparative advantages?

Yes

The Ricardian Axiom of association?

I know of Ricardo's version of the model

I'm talking of the Misesian interpretation

First of all it's framed wrong in characterizing opportunity costs in terms of time saving

Since that is an axiom of human exchange

Secondly Ricardo's model assumed throwing more labour at a Vineyard increases output somehow