I don’t like that term “free trade.” Everybody has their own definition. Free trade wasn’t supposed to mean third world countries get to cheat and use slave labor and we shut up. That was never the deal.
I won't put a import tax on your perfume, you won't put a import tax on my brocades.
That works.
I will tax none of your shoddy goods that you will dump on my markets until you have driven all my native industries out of business?
That tends not to work.
“Free trade wasn’t supposed to mean third world countries get to cheat and use slave labor and we shut up. That was never the deal.”
That was the deal all along. They just lied to you about it. That’s all.
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