Free trade favors the country that practices it and makes it richer relative to countries that do not. If all countries practice free trade the country whose people innovate will be richer than the others. That is the USA. Read Hazlitt and learn something.
“Free trade favors the country that practices it and makes it richer relative to countries that do not.”
We had tariffs from 1789 to 1913, so according to you we did NOT practice free trade; and yet we got richer and richer and richer and by 1900 became the richest, highest paying, highest standard of living in the world.
How does that econ history fit your theory?
“If all countries practice free trade the country whose people innovate will be richer than the others. That is the USA. “
No it isn’t.
“Read Hazlitt and learn something. “
Read it already. Read American history and use your brain.