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| Trade Deals Are About Increasing Protectionist Barriers Baker, Dean http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/trade-deals-are-about-increasing-protectionist-barriers 
 Publisher:  Center for Economic and Policy Research
 Date Written:  15/12/2019
 Year Published:  2019
 Resource Type:  Article
 
 Past trade deals were about making it easier to trade manufactured goods, making it as easy as possible for corporations to take advantage of low-cost labor in the developing world. This has the predicted and actual effect of putting downward pressure on the wages of less-educated workers.
 
 
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