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Free trade is an international trade policy whose aim is the free movement of goods and services, capital and people between nations, through the elimination of artificial barriers to trade such as tariffs, quotas, subsidies and protectionist regulations. It is generally supported by capitalist nations, and criticised by socialists or nationalists.
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In NationStates
Some nations have pursued free trade agreements in NationStates. A list of known agreements can be found below.
In the NSUN
Although Free Trade has always existed as a category for proposals in the United Nations, free trade itself has never been particularly popular within that institution. However, this has changed to some extent more recently, with moves to use UN resolutions to achieve free trade meeting with some, though not total, success. At present, there are three standing free trade agreements passed by the UN: Global Food Distribution Act, Nuclear Energy Research Act and UN Recycling Commisssion. The Waste Disposal Covenant also contains some free trade provisions, whilst the UN maintains its longstanding prohibition on embargoes of medicine.
List of free trade agreements
Primarily trade agreements
- Antarctic Oasis Economic Advancement Agreement
- Charter of the Southeast European Free Economies
- ECON Free Trade Agreement
- Knootian International Stabilisation Treaty
- Martian Free Trade Agreement
- Pan-Lexicon Treaty Organization
