remember Germany only became a country in the 1870s

Yes, that was the problem in the first place

The GATT and WTO forced people to have free trade

That's not free trade

It is

Because it lowered tariffs across the board

That's just convergence of regulations

That's pretty retarded

Yeah, some parts of it have some free trade

No they're exclusively about free trade

But states still don't really care

The GATT is the General agreement on tariff and trade

The WTO the world trade organization which punishes countries for not engaging in free trade

It actually forced Bush to not have steel tariffs for example

Or the EU to let in sugar from Brazil

Whereas prior the EU was subsidizing sugar beets and had tariffs

That is not free trade

Free trade is deregulation

And no tariffs

free trade is trading without tariffs

That's it

Only because you reach some lower tariffs doesn't make it free trade

Yes it's freer than before

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