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The Controversy over US Coal and Natural Gas Exports

The Controversy over US Coal and Natural Gas Exports

Full Title:  The Controversy over US Coal and Natural Gas Exports
Author(s):  Joel Darmstadter
Publisher(s):  RFF
Publication Date: March 1, 2013
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In international trade, a gap between theory and practice has always existed. Theory stresses, as an underlying ideal, the economic benefits of trade based on comparative advantage. In practice, and for a variety of reasons—institutional constraints, political factors, ambiguity of legal doctrine, bilateral or multilateral treaty obligations—the ideal intermittently bows to reality, whether in the form of explicit protectionism or other barriers.

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