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  • 11 - International Trade Law: Free Trade, Fair Trade, and Trade in Stolen Goods

  • David Lefkowitz, University of Richmond
  • Book:
    Philosophy and International Law
    Published online:
    10 October 2020
    Print publication:
    29 October 2020, pp 230-265

  • Summary

    This chapter addresses the moral justifiability of some of the international legal rules that govern cross-border trade.The primary focus is on the moral standards that ought to be used to critically evaluate those rules or proposals for their reform.Thus the chapter investigates several moral arguments for free trade, such as the claim that it provides an especially effective mechanism for alleviating poverty, and several arguments in defense of restrictions or conditions on trade, including the moral permissible of partiality to compatriots and the right of those who cooperate to make international trade possible to a fair share of the benefits it yields.The chapter concludes with an examination of the argument that the import and consumption of oil and other natural resources from countries ruled by tyrants constitutes trade in stolen goods, a violation of existing international law.