I don’t see that happening again. For the past 5-10 years, there is too much foreign capital in India and vested interests won’t let (items such as) 100% tariffs on imports any more.

To that effect, India might need to protect their interests from China.

Anyone remember the Sino-Indian war?

The reason free trade hasn’t worked for the United States is because we are the only ones doing it. Everyone else slants the rules in their favor. What we need to practice is Fair Trade – that is, if you open up cetain markets in your country we will open up ours, if you exclude our products, we will exclude yours. Right now free trade is a one way street – into the US.

As for competition, historically in the case of the US, there were plenty of competitors in the US market to keep them honest and give the consumer the benefit of the competition. Now that so many of our industries have been decimated it would be hard for real market competition to occur in some industries, like electronics, if the government tried to support a home based industry. Though I would like to think if given the chance, new companies would be formed if the market wasn’t under assault from foreign competition. And these would give the consumers choices.

I think we are closer than you think. I don’t want protectionism, except against predator nations, I want nurturing of American insdustry and Fair Trade. Also I am a conservative politically but a nationalist when it comes to trade. We should participate when it is to our benefit.

What did that get them?

Brand-new 1954 Morris automobiles and brand-new 1959 Fiat automobiles. Churned out for decades. One of the lowest standards of living on planet earth.

Now they have one of the best growth economies on planet earth – much of which came from opening their markets up – open markets include exports.

China can always also retaliate and put tariffs onto Indian goods, which would not work out well for India.

Nope. Indian automakers simply need to do a better job than Chinese automakers. That should not be a difficult task, giving what other Chinese products are like!

Competition. Free market enterprise. Starting with little and turning it into something more. That’s what makes America great. When did America forget that? Why is it that whenever things trend down, no matter how small, no matter the duration, America seems to be willing to throw it all away and go down the socialist route? CEO pay caps, socialized medicine, protectionism, and the systematic redistribution of wealth just because some don’t like the hand they were dealt (or, more likely, the hand they dealt themselves)?

I don’t like what the Asian nations are doing, and I think it will bite them in the ass sooner rather than later.

“From 1860 to 1913, the United States was the most protectionist nation on earth and produced the most awesome growth of any nation in history. In 1860, the U.S. economy was half of Britain’s; in 1913, more than twice Britain’s.

In 1920, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge won a landslide, cut income taxes from Wilson’s 69 percent to 25 percent and doubled tariffs. America went on a tear. When Coolidge went home in 1929, the United States was producing 42 percent of the world’s manufactured goods.”

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25318

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