well it appears the yanks are trying to get a free trade agreement with us, what makes them think that anyone wants them or their products here, i for one plan to protest non-stop if this gets any credibility here. the nerve of them to think that we want to be branded collaborators to their terrorist regime. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=3&ObjectID=10009321 i know i sound like i am just ranting, so close this if i am, but this really pisses me off and i had to say something about it
Why? You needn't buy any Amercian products. But what of your compatriots? Wouldn't they? And why shouldn't they? It's their life and their money - so why shouldn't they be able to buy cheap amercia made shet if they want to? does amercia still make stuff? Oh yeah, crap movies - so you get cheaper features Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
i once saw a stress ball on sale in chicago with the words... "Proudly Made in America" on the case... made me laugh about the state of america's industry... if a balloon full of sand increases their pride....
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be careful of trade. trade leads to other nations gaining control of domestic policy through the forces of harmonisation.
Yes, the effects of globalization..... Here's some statistics about them: http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=44808 Welcome Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Actually it is the other way around Australia and New Zealand are trying their best to get free trade deals with America . That explains why Australia is asskissing the US by going into this right up to their necks with this war on terror . Ill guarantee it if their was any hope of a freetrade deal for New Zealand they would be the most eager cheerleader for America . My advice to the American public would be to shun any Australian and New Zealand freetrade deal as the motives are purely mercenary .
esp, its parts are asian, and my illegal copy of winXP is costing them millions to try and prevent Brian, the gain for us would be minimal if any, even if american products were cheaper, no-one is going to give up boycotting them. and is that few dollars a year we will save worth being branded a terrorist state like america?
I dont think you understand what Australia and New Zealand want , it is the old Freetrade Colonial setup we had with Britain . In those days prior to Britain joining the EU all of Britains manufactured goods came here and in return all our agricultural products went to the British market for consumption . So if Aust/NZ can replicate that freetrade system we had with Imperial Britain it would benefit us greatly by giving our manufacturesrs an assured market to sell our goods . My advice to Americans is to tell Australia and New Zealand to go take a flying fuck , which in a sense America is doing by deliberately dragging its feet over negotiations . American products here have never been cheaper and no one outside of the Mideast is boycotting US goods .
What American products are we talking about?? Most of the consumer goods sold in America are made in China or South East Asia. The label may say "General Electric" or "Fruit of the loom" , but the products are not made in the USA.
Brian Foley: the free trade agreement which we DID get fucked us again. It was one sided where we remove tarifs but they wont. They wanted to screw with things like the PBS when they were putting more tarrifs onto the steel industry there i dont know WHY NZ would want in on something like this, its just howard wants to get bush into bed
Or in other words America made it so that we would have to either drop the negotiations or if we accept it it wouldnt advantage Australia . America has 3 separate freetrade deals with Israel , Jordan and Singapore . With the large Zionist lobby in America that expalins why Israel has one . Jordan because that nation holds some 3 million Palestinian refugees and is vital that Jordan co-opearte for that Zionist shithole to exist . Singapores freetrade deal derives from strategic concerns because that is where the US Navy is now based since vacating Subic Bay in the Philipines . Australia and New Zealand would like Israel be simply parasites on the American working people and it is there where I come down firmly on the side of America here . Australia and New Zealand are both gutless and are too frightened to stand on our own two feet ! Explains why we are both still not republics and why ANZACS still fight other nations wars .
It gives you the proud status of being a FREE nation.. now you can make your very own sand filled baloons.. and call them stress balls.... !!!! whoa! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
vslayer. I dissagree with you there mate. I WANT australia to be a republic and i hated the way john howards underhanded technics undermined that effort
From the article: NAM selected countries which import more than US$1 billion ($1.41 billion) of US manufactured goods annually and applied other criteria such as the extent of non tariff barriers and the quality of judicial systems. Others singled out include India, Egypt, Malaysia and South Korea. Are they kidding? India, Egypt, etc. have high quality judicial systems and lack of trade barriers? Not the last time I checked. :bugeye:
Brian: Tradition. We are pretty much an independent country. The Queen's representative is pretty much a figure head. It is a good way of keeping good relations with Britain. And why is angry about a free trade agreement? Isn't it a good think that we won't have to pay tariff on imports/exports?
