[Beltalowda]

I think what we've slowly come to realize is that "liberalizing trade" only really works if everyone shares roughly the same values. Even trade between the EU and US can be stressed at times due to this, and they largely share the same high-level values. But not always, and can differ quite a bit on details.

[washadjeffmad]

Does high-level mean "commoditizing qualities that don't increase the costs of amortization?"

Because the premium EU and US markets pay for clothes that don't poison customers doesn't seem to come strictly from societal values (we still permit some amount of pollution and harmful compounds in our products and environments, just not obvious or acute ones), but a healthy respect of the mechanisms and agency these groups have to affect a business's revenue.

"Values" could also reasonably be euphemism for "finance".