<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Steve Baker MP &#187; Free Trade</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.stevebaker.info/tag/free-trade/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.stevebaker.info</link>
	<description>One life. Live it.</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:30:22 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1</generator>
		<item>
		<title>The EU should be abolished</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/08/calls-for-a-referendum-on-eu-membership-after-david-camerons-u-turn-on-tax-world-news-the-observer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/08/calls-for-a-referendum-on-eu-membership-after-david-camerons-u-turn-on-tax-world-news-the-observer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 08:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevebaker.info/?p=9889</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Via Calls for a referendum on EU membership after David Cameron&#8217;s U-turn on tax &#124; World news &#124; The Observer: Tory and Labour MPs believe that if the eurozone moves towards a single tax system – as chancellor George Osborne advocated again – then the EU will become a fundamentally different organisation to the one ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/08/calls-for-a-referendum-on-eu-membership-after-david-camerons-u-turn-on-tax-world-news-the-observer/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Commonwealth: No longer a club of the past</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/07/the-commonwealth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/07/the-commonwealth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Hewish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commonwealth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevebaker.info/?p=9703</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NB: this post is by Tim Hewish, my Parliamentary Researcher. Both on the Left and the Right, there is a growing case for Britain to reassess her position in the world. One only needs to look at The Economist’s posters at tube stations and the recent Henry Jackson Society’s report: The Tipping Point: British National ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.stevebaker.info/2011/07/the-commonwealth/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>How to transform a nation in ten steps</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/09/ten-steps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/09/ten-steps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Currency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deregulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiscal policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flat tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industrial policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monetary Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tax]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevebaker.info/?p=6890</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Brought forward. I was challenged last night to advocate flat taxes. Here&#8217;s one of my previous posts which does so. Another is here (you will have to forgive the oversize graphs). The Georgian recipe for &#8220;an amazing transformation&#8221;: Low and flat taxes Legislative commitment to reducing the government&#8217;s fiscal footprint (IE spend less!) Deregulation and ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/09/ten-steps/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>OpenEurope</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/07/openeurope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/07/openeurope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Market Intervention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevebaker.info/?p=7776</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I met today with the excellent think tank OpenEurope, along with other MPs of various parties: Open Europe is an independent think tank, with offices in London and Brussels, set up by some of the UK’s leading business people to contribute bold new thinking to the debate about the direction of the EU. While we ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/07/openeurope/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Concern as China clamps down on rare earth exports</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/01/concern-as-china-clamps-down-on-rare-earth-exports/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/01/concern-as-china-clamps-down-on-rare-earth-exports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Trade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevebaker.info/?p=6624</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another good reason to promote global free trade: Britain and other Western countries risk running out of supplies of certain highly sought-after rare metals that are vital to a host of green technologies, amid growing evidence that China, which has a monopoly on global production, is set to choke off exports of valuable compounds. via ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.stevebaker.info/2010/01/concern-as-china-clamps-down-on-rare-earth-exports/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Razeen Sally, &#8220;Trade Policy, New Century&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/12/trade-policy-new-century/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/12/trade-policy-new-century/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cobden Centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prosperity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sophistry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevebaker.info/?p=6590</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post originally appeared on cobdencentre.org. Razeen Sally&#8217;s Trade Policy, New Century (PDF) succeeds magnificently in explaining the 21st-century case for free trade and, specifically, unilateral trade liberalisation to the interested, non-specialist reader. From the IEA home page of the book: The World Trade Organization (WTO) is failing to deliver the trade liberalisation desperately needed ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/12/trade-policy-new-century/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>The Apostle of Free Trade: Richard Cobden</title>
		<link>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/05/the-apostle-of-free-trade-richard-cobden/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/05/the-apostle-of-free-trade-richard-cobden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 13:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Cobden]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stevebaker.info/?p=5008</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished Gowing&#8217;s 1885 biography of Richard Cobden, whose doctrine was that free trade would lead to world peace through interdependence and mutual cooperation. Cobden was a leader of the Anti-Corn-Law League &#8212; a substantial feat of political agitation &#8212; which was established to oppose protectionist measures on corn and decrease the price of ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.stevebaker.info/2009/05/the-apostle-of-free-trade-richard-cobden/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

