Why would the free trade world do that? So doesn't this prove that the rest of the world DOES NOT practice or believe in so called FREE TRADE? LOL!
“FREE TRADE?”
No such thing. Supply/demand. Supply too expensive, tell them to eat it and get it elsewhere until you can create more jobs by establishing it here.
Just the threat of that will scare the out worlders. Too many of these countries are dealing with limited supply of most of their trade items except for one or two. If they are threatened with losing the “account,” it can cause a meeting for a more realistic balance. But as long as the politicians fold up for them, it will get worse rather than better.
This is why they don’t like to work with Trump. He will “fire them.” And he will replace them. And, I hope, he will ultimately replace them with product at home creating more jobs and more trade capacity here. And as it continues, the foreign countries won’t be concerned as much about how they can skin us, but how they can cut into the action we took away from them. And that will include undercutting their action with other foreign countries.
rwood