Marx on free trade

[Brad De Long]

>On Monday, September 27, 1999 at 21:22:31 (-0700) Brad De Long writes:
> >...
> >I like labor standards and environmental standards when they are
> >devices to induce progress in other countries. I don't like them when
> >they are excuses for protection.
> >
> >The line, I admit, is fine, and its location changes day by day...
>
>How can you label labor and environmental standards "excuses for
>protection"

Sometimes that is how they are used--not with the idea of producing 
progress in Mexico, but with the principal aim of keeping 
foreign-made goods out