... application of tariffs on Philippine exported goods to the US. There was political and social unrest in the form of the Huk guerilla rebellion and the PKM (National Peasant Union). Classic tenant-landlord, people vs. elite conflicts, the Huks were met by Roxas' mixed policy of negotiation and suppression. Although having established an agrarian commission and a law giving 70 percent of ... ...

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... that would settle disputes between countries about trade rules. It also opened up the agriculture and textile industries to free trade, where they were heavily protected before (Harris 1). In Goldsmiths notes he quotes David Ricardo, a British economist in the early nineteenth century, was one of the first to write about free trade. Ricardo believed that, "each nation should specialize in those ... ...

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