Virtually every successful Asian economy was built on selective trade barriers – and in China and India, the world’s two fastest growing economies, such barriers remain in place. Even Korea and Japan maintain massive duties on imported rice simply to protect the livelihoods of their own rice farmers.
几乎每一个成功的亚洲经济体都建立在某些选择性贸易壁垒之上—在中国和印度，这两个世界上发展最快的经济体中，这样的壁垒仍然存在。甚至韩国和日本为了保护国内米农的生计也仍然维持着针对进口大米的高额关税。