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Re:Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland by DubiousPusher on Friday March 19, 2021 @05:29PM (#26518302)
Sort of yes. While a lot of the benefits of the development that comes with the growth of the grocery industry in Oregon will stay local, the surplus will not. It ends up in Ohio or inside pensions or investor pockets.

But this isn't a great analogy because the U.S. federal government keeps interstate trade much more homogeneous than the EU.

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Re:Ghana will no longer sell cocoa to Switzerland by jldugger on Friday March 19, 2021 @09:00PM (#26519800)
> the U.S. federal government keeps interstate trade

That's part of it, but there's actually also a set of interstate compacts (that still have to be "allowed" by Congress constitutionally) and also Uniform Codes (which don't). Particularly the uniform commercial code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Commercial_Code

Basically, a think tank from the 50's decided to convince all the states to pass laws which just all happened to look alike because they copied from the same source. No interstate agreement required, they just all did it, no congressional thumbs up required. I... don't think the EU is quite on that level of unity yet =)

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