I don’t like globally managed trade through international trade groups. Trade should be a free for all affair with trade deals made and broken between individual nations.
That said, we still need to acknowledge our own fault in the current mess. Things like over taxation, over regulation and over unionization drives business into the arms of the trade groups.
Myths, myths, myths. ALL manufacturing that is still done in the US is performed by a private sector work force that is 93% non-union. There is no vat tax in this country(yet) and corporations pay income tax just like you and me. As far as regulations, the third world corruption and communism more than make up the difference.