First I must ask, does EXACTLY have a meaning other than exactly?
If lower consumer prices are achieved at the cost of national security and the jobs of Americans, they aren’t worth any short term saving that might be realized.
And, why do you think that free trade was devised to lower consumer prices when it fact it sole purpose is to increase corporate profits without regard for its impact on democracy?
“And, why do you think that free trade was devised to lower consumer prices when it fact it sole purpose is to increase corporate profits without regard for its impact on democracy?”
Yep, and the lower consumer prices are just the latest excuse/mask/misdirection used to disguise the fact which you state: it’s all about increasing corporate profits and the rest be damned.
In the past free trade was going to open up vast new markets for US goods and services. But what they have to show for that promise is an almost trillion dollar trade deficit and an ever mushrooming national debt.