>NZ is your example, so can you please connect your assertions to this: http://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/release_full.cfm?id=323028
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>The "un-level playing field" is that New Zealand's pastures allow production of first-rate dairy products more cheaply than anybody else on the planet. Especially Idaho. Therefore it's necessary to protect US dairy interests from the effects of free trade by NZ.
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>Put that in your "econ 101" pipe and smoke it. ;)

The guy's name is Crapo.
Craponomics, huh?

econ 101 says he is trying to protect dairy special interests at the expense of the ordinary consumer.
He is betting that people are too stupid to realize they are being had.
He is probably right.

Classic protectionist bullsh***

Good that we are both in favor of free markets.
It is a lot better for the consumer, and does not have room for this kind of anti-consumer protectionist garbage.