Free trade is a policy by which governments do not discriminate against imports or exports. Free trade is exemplified by the European Union / European Economic Area and the North American Free Trade Agreement, which have established open markets with very few restrictions to trade. Most nations are today members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) multilateral trade agreements. However, most governments still impose some protectionist policies that are intended to support local employment, such as applying tariffs to imports or subsidies to exports. Governments may also restrict free trade to limit exports of natural resources. Other barriers that may hinder trade include import quotas, taxes, and non-tariff barriers, such as regulatory legislation.
That's your problem, you are trying to solve the worlds injustices with trade policy, and that will not ever ever ever ever work. Free trade assumes nothing, other than liberty is always the best for OUR citizens over all….
I said nothing about trying to solve the world's injustices with trade policy. You are creating a phony strawman. I want a trade policy that serves the best interests of this nation. If we are being disadvantaged, then we should change our policies.
Free trade is not an unalloyed good. Professor Peter Soderbaum of Malardalen University, Sweden, "This neoclassical trade theory focuses on one dimension, i.e., the price at which a commodity can be delivered and is extremely narrow in cutting off a large number of other considerations about impacts on employment in different parts of the world, about environmental impacts and on culture."
You align yourself with a liberal socialist, I align myself with Friedman, Sowell, REagan, Williams, Palin, Limbaugh, Levin, Santelli, etc.
I win. You lose. QED.