Free trade mean “you drop your and I’ll drop mine”...but that only works when the playing field is fair. As in NO government subsidies to screw the other folks dropping their. Not gonna show mine if you won’t show yours first.
You can’t have “free” trade with a country who pays $10 a week for labor. We can never compete. Thems the facts, as they say...
You can let them have certain cheap or low profit things we let them import free, but you will LOSE every time on “free” trade for critical industries because we can never compete with $10 a week or even $10 a day labor...