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@Snowshadow

#CEUM

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism

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...commerce, and trade into directions different from how individuals in the market may have wanted to direct their own activities, the more it created incentives for “#Smuggling” – #BlackMarkets – to get around the controls."👈

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"#Mercantilism as a System of Protection

The attitude of mercantilism towards the means of supplying the wants of human beings, i.e., towards...

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@Snowshadow

#CEUM

#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism

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... of souvereign and autonomous states, while the #US will be impoverished by the economic fallout of the #TrumpTariffs. They constitue a #Mercantilist trade policy, which has historically been proven to be detrimental to its practitioners: it gives rise to #Smuggling and anarchy:

"👉The more the government’s #Mercantilist policies attempted to restrict and divert manufacturing,...

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Operation Atacama: How Italy foiled a $1m international cactus heist that led to a smuggler's downfall.

After thousands of rare Chilean cacti were found in the house of an Italian collector, a years-long trial slowly unravelled how they got there – and is setting a precedent for dealing with crimes of this kind.

mediafaro.org/article/20250310

Italian police inspect confiscated cactuses. | Credit: Andrea Cattabriga
BBC · Operation Atacama: How Italy foiled a $1m international cactus heist that led to a smuggler's downfall.By Sofia Quaglia