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• Jeff Lonsdale

• Most of the discussions on this site ignore analyzing the effect of trade on more than one country. What if a company in country A, which sells to people in country A and B outsources to country C? If the amount the company sells to people in country A isn't that high relative to country B, then I don't see how saying the people of country A aren't hurt by this would be true.
  Now, I could see how there would be adverse effects if the government tried to do anything directly about this (Tariffs, protectionism, etc), but it seems disingenuous to claim that there is no way the people in the US is being hurt by this phenomenon.

  Basically what I am saying is that it seems to me that if other nations are better off, the pie might grow overall, but it also might grow at the expense of Americans losing more of the pie than the growing makes up for (to China or India for example). I don't think protectionism would help the US if this was the case, but I don't think that articles on trade should always pretend that when other countries become more competitive in a certain area it always helps the US.

• Published: April 24, 2004 9:31 AM