4bars
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Why not allow that countries that employes kids for pennies, with lower standards, lower quality and salubrity concerns, not concern of poor environmental manufacture procedures and so many others to compete with european standards and regulations?That's as a result of Western protectionism. Western countries ensure that selectively chosen raw materials have zero tariffs, but as soon as those raw materials are processed to any minor degree into more profitable products they incur huge import tariffs (ensuring that Western companies are able to profiteer without fair competition). Effectively poor non-white people can harvest raw materials but those same people aren't able to process them into more profitable produce for a living wage. It's literally designed to keep the poor, poor.
Historically it's gone one step further... White Western countries buy raw goods at tariff free prices and EU programs are designed to subsidise over-production. This means EU companies can as a false economy "dump" excess overproduced goods (subsidised by EU taxpayers) back to poor countries who were exploited for cheap produce in the first place. We literally exploited their vulnerable position, blocked their ability to make a good living and dumped government subsidised produce back into their market, making their farms non-viable.
My point isn't that we should exploit poor countries via low tariffs. It's that we should allow poor Asian/African countries the same opportunities as poor European nations had over the last few decades. If the EU/European dream is a great one why don't we allow every poor country in the world the opportunity to enjoy it by extending the zero tariff zone to every country with a lower GDP per capita than the average EU citizen?
Or... as a hilarious comedian once said... is it only "all right if it's all white"?
Why do you think?