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To: WatchungEagle

“Free Trade” Deals like NAFTA and TPP are Government Managed Trade, not “Free Trade.”


5 posted on 01/09/2017 5:35:49 PM PST by VitacoreVision
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To: VitacoreVision; WatchungEagle

How does having documents thousands of pages long (NAFTA and TPP) with hundreds of dos and don’ts constitute free trade?? There would be free trade if there were no agreements between nations and private individuals and businesses could trade as they wished across borders.

If you have an agreement, there are certainly terms in said agreement, therefore, one can surely examine those terms and determine whether they benefit or hurt you overall.

So Trump wanting to revisit the terms of these unfree trade agreements is not only perfectly fine but his duty, especially in light of a couple of decades of not such good results for us.


26 posted on 01/09/2017 7:16:09 PM PST by aquila48
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