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Abstract: The 2012 rankings of trade freedom around the world indicate that trade freedom in the world has remained constant or regressed slightly since 2011. The lack of improvement is regrettable because countries with the most trade freedom have the highest per capita gross domestic product, the lowest incidence of hunger, and the cleanest environments. The U.S.
Promoting economic freedom at home and abroad is essential to revitalizing the U.S. economy. In 2010, the United States fell from the ranks of the economically free countries in the Index of Economic Freedom and, in the years since, the U.S. has continued a steady decline.
The 2010 Trade Policy Agenda offers little hope for advancing the open-market policies that have historically served the U.S. so well.
The 2009 Trade Policy Agenda's general lack of specificity leaves much of its content open to interpretation, reducing its transparency and informational value to consumers and businessestrying to make economic decisions today.
The EU's new Reform Treaty closely resembles the failed EUconstitution and carries the same risks to nation-state sovereigntyand U.S. interests.