[calcowgirl]

You position is that you have no position because it can be used to make you think and question your own little comfortable existence.

That is what you got from this?

My "position" is that those are pretty simplistic definitions given what we see characterized today as "free trade." I largely believe in the theory of free trade for non-essential items or non-critical industries (which would exclude basic food items, items/material required for national defense, etc.). But I don't believe that what we see today in FTAs represents "free trade" in the slightest.

Please "state what your position is on free trade as defined by the free dictionary" so I can understand the type of response you might find adequate.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

Yes, I did.

I see someone who says they are opposed to tariffs except when it is important to have tariffs. So we shouldn’t have them unless we need them and when we need them is kind of hard to explain. So managed trade is what should be.

Did I get that right?

What would be an example of a non-critical industry?