free trade movement

Like Britain, a gradual liberalization of trade laws as part of the free trade movement meant less smuggling.

Such tariffs had previously existed in Britain, but had been abolished in the 1870s because of the free trade movement.

The Morrill Tariff was met with intense hostility in Britain, where the free trade movement dominated public opinion.

He is noted as being the voice in parliament of the free trade movement before the election of Richard Cobden and John Bright.

In 1860, at an economic conference in Cologne, the free trade movement was successful in getting essential reforms put forth to the Zollverein.

Born in Ontario, he was the son of Joseph Langford Haycock, a leading member of the free trade movement.

In 1853 the Times observed that "it was Mr Charles Villiers who practically originated the Free Trade movement".

Before returning, however, Heaney assisted the new government of Bavaria in West Germany to revise its labor laws, helping to organize a free trade movement.

Historically the Milk Marketing Board operated in the UK and along with WTO free trade movements has been dissolved.

The failure in the 1900s of Chamberlain's campaign for imperial tariffs illustrates the strength of a free trade movement even in the face of loss of international market share.

Although avowedly a free trade movement the ASU found itself linked with the fascist movements that began to emerge in the 1920s, largely due to their shared opposition to communism.

Today, the United States has become a leader of the free trade movement, standing behind groups such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (later the World Trade Organization).

The combination of the global free trade movement and the increase in social and fiscal burdens, which are a result of these Socialist policies, partly explains Europe's low growth rate, particularly in comparison to the United States.

Tooke was one of the earliest supporters of the free trade movement which assumed the form in the petition of the merchants of the City of London presented to the House of Commons by Alexander Baring, on 8 May 1820.