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What is "Trade-fairness."
Sounds dumb as hell. Free trade doesn't have to be fair. Those who win will win.
You seem to think that Darwinian "survival of fittest" is the Rule of the Game in International Trade.
Neither in trade nor in any other matter related to the well-being of humans living with country boundaries and seeking to have a decent life-style by trading beyond those limits.
Unless they are, of course, self-sustaining. Which is extremely rarely the case. Like North Korea.
Trading has been part-and-parcel a key component of our economic well-being since the dawn of mankind. Once upon a time it was, indeed, the stronger who succeeded is subduing the weaker - with the consequence that the former enslaved the latter.
It's only recently in time that we've come to learn how to do it peaceably and somewhat equitably; but that effort remains nonetheless work-in-progress ...
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