Freedom to Trade Campaign

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IPN along with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation launched the Freedom to Trade Campaign in 2009 at an event hosted at the Legatum Institute in London, it is a coalition of 76 think tanks and civil society organisations in 48 countries, which supports free trade and opposes protectionism in all its guises. This means removing all barriers to trade imposed by governments, including quotas, tariffs, subsidies, bureaucratic restrictions and protectionist regulations. The Campaign seeks to alert the public to the looming dangers of protectionism and to oppose existing and new protectionist measures. It will monitor and draw attention to existing and new protectionist measures – and will call for their elimination. '