Trade promotes peace - The greater two nations' gain from trade the more costly is bilateral conflict. A doubling of trade leads to a 20% diminution of belligerence.

If all policies worldwide that distort agricultural trade were phased out in this decade, the likely total annual economic benefit to the world by 2015 would be roughly $50 billion to $185 billion, which is about 3 percent to 13 percent of the value added by world agriculture. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/76xx/doc7690/11-20-AgTrade.pdf

90.1% of economists surveted believe that the U.S. should not restrict employers from outsourcing work to foreign countries.

87.5% of economists believe that the U.S. should eliminate remaining tariffs and other barriers to trade.

85.2% of economists favor eliminating agricultural subsidies

61.3% of economists believe that U.S. anti-dumping laws should be removed.

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