Subsidies, trade protections and other economic distortions accumulate, and resources increasingly flow to a specialised class of lawyers, bureaucrats and lobbyists who know how to work the system.

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And the easiest way to do that is to dismantle the system of trade protections that Big Sugar gets so that sugar is cheaper than HFCS and so no one uses the latter.

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The U.S. also will use trade arrangements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership to seek new provisions on trade-secret protections that include penalties similar to those in U.S. law.

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