Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Today I will give you an insight in my report I’ve named “Free trade versus balanced trade”. The base text of this report was quite long and I won’t be able to tell you all the things I got acquainted with in that text, but I’ll try to tell about the main points. So I will touch upon 3 themes – first, there will be an overview of trade theories, second – some critical survey on free trade and third – some paragraphs on balanced trade. So please listen, try to find it useful and let’s start.
Currently, a large part of most governments' national trade policies results from business interests lobbying.…