mals or plants, in a step towards more government cooperation and acceptance, due to the recognition by the WRO of the governments right to protect its citizens. Free Trade and Equality Another issue of great concern is that regarding the relation between trade and equality between the trading parties whether the increase in trade acts as a reducer or as an increaser of the gap between trading countries. Here a number of variables play decisive roles and thus the issue becomes of great complexity. Each country can be regarded as a special case as it deals with different partners and with regards to different goods, thus the terms of trade differ from one country to another. The important thing to recognize is that the aspect of equality is relative. Let us consider an example of two countries A and B, where they consume with a rate of 1, 5 goods respectively. If after trade country A increases its consumption by 3 goods while B increases it by 17. Then the trade would have widened the gap between the two countries, even though country A still increased its consumption, but it is still worse of relative to B regarding their pre-trade status. The point is, it is not whether or not a country benefits from trade it is how the benefits are distributed among the trading countries. It is almost certain that trade is beneficial to countries, but is the one that makes the most out of such benefit is an issue of great debate. How ever it seems to be the case that large countries, or the more developed ones tend to be favored regarding terms of trade and thus tend to capture the largest part of the benefits associated with international trade at the expense of smaller less developed countries, and from here it seems that trade is further widening the gap between the large and small or developed and less developed countries. Free Trade and Employment Another concern of governments adapting to WTO is the eff...
