The intent and operation of many such multinational "trade" accords have more to do with what Hayek calls "statism". And more than that, it facilitates decision-making about the lives of both us AND foreign citizens, by unaccountable international committees like the World Trade Organization Committees on Trade which have already spent much of the last 10 years forcing the USA and other countries to "harmonize" their local legislation where it conflicts with the WTO's rules.
The CAFTA is a different agreement from GATT, GATS, WTO, NAFTA, etc etc but the import of all these things is the same, to bring about in fact and then in spirit our subsidiarity to world bodies.
One by-product of such "free" trade agreements is that the other country is required to remove all tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade, which in practice means their local farmers are undercut by required imports (e.g. corn, sugar) of what they already have a surplus of, and then the small or subsistence farmers are left without any means of making a living. Hence millions of more people move to already over-crowded third world cities and government intervention is called for to "save" them, when the whole problem was caused by that government's being pressured.
This is not an unintended consequence, but merely the world view of the elite. I think some unbiased research on such issues as I have recently done, starting with the assumption that all trade is good, helps provide further context.
Oh yea, I want to be held accountable to the WTO (who lists China as a preferred trade partner) and the U.N. scums that need to be kicked out of the U.S.!!!!
There's three principles I believe in above all others; KISS, if it works don't fix it and "free" simply doesn't work. That's to say that I don't believe there's anything wrong with our current trade agreements and "free" trade will simply not work and be disastrous. I don't believe America can "create" a Dallas-like city in Nicaragua through "free" trade. "Free" simply doesn't work and that's been proven time and time again. "Free" needs to be stricken from all our dialects. If Nicaragua wants to build a city the size of Dallas then let them do it just like America has; blood, sweat and tears.