Summary
Notes:
we've talked about barriers to free trade past, present, and future. and those barriers that we'd like to see in the past right away are the tariff-based problems--bananas.
requiring a bit more finesse and a little more care in dealing with people-based opposition is the second type--non-tariff trade barriers, really present problems in places in europe, different working habits, siestas, etc. all has to be standardized.
finally you have the systemic trade barriers, which are problems at the core of modern democracies, and yet which could be solved much more quickly than non-tariff trade barriers by allowing the free functioning of a very competent marketplace. a free mar