"Government-forced free trade" is an oxymoron. "Free trade" by definition is "free" of government coercion or interference. Free trade is the voluntary cooperation of buyers and sellers in the marketplace without government interference or coercion and is what creates wealth.
Leftists always steer away from the root problems caused by government coercion ("the government is never wrong") and interference and many misguided on the Right think the free market is the culprit. But our economic ills have been artificially induced by the feds through high taxes, suffocating regulations, union protection and unconstitutional minimum wage. Tariffs attack none of these root causes but, as government always does, adds more government coercion and interference into the economy making matters worse for the American consumer.
Free trade does not exist on an international basis and it most likely never will. You don't need thousands pages called NAFTA and TPP and the others to describe a free trade agreement. Nations protect all sorts of industries and interests and they have a right to do that and they always will. - People like you who pretend that we have free trade have cost this nation a few trillion by supporting one-sided trade deals over the past thirty or more years.
And the number one reason factories and jobs leave the US is cheap labor, not all those secondary reasons you and others love to list. Why did thousands of factories moved to Mexico and not Canada as a result of NAFTA?
You're obsessing about government while refusing to see that all these so-called free trade agreements have done more to weaken the US economically than any other factors. And those agreements were brought about by government to serve particular interests of globalists and transnational corporations, and some agricultural interests.
Free trade with nations of comparable living standards and tariffed trade with Third World nations is the only rational policy.