[hedgetrimmer]

I said SOME of the biggest "trading partners",and included concrete examples of countries using slave labor and human trafficking.

And even if some of these "trading partners" are not the biggest, a society with an abhorrance to slavery should not trade with them. But the WTO says we must or we will be violating their rules.

Trying to diminish the fact that globally,slavery is on the rise due to the fraudulently named "free trade" system won't fly.

[MadIvan]

But the WTO says we must or we will be violating their rules.

This is actually what has been agreed.

It doesn't eliminate protectionism - it caps tariffs at certain levels, and turns agricultural quotas to tariffs.

Trying to diminish the fact that globally,slavery is on the rise due to the fraudulently named "free trade" system won't fly.

None of the articles you posted say that free trade has led to an increase in slavery. The nation that first proposed free trade, namely Britain, was also one of the first to eliminate it, and actively work to destroy it with the Royal Navy.

Ivan