But what the hey, you listen to Harry Browne(who says 9/11 was America's fault).
So you maybe smoking something.
B'zzzzt. Wrong. He advocated for true free trade, and those ideas, of opening up our regional markets and the globe did not produce any of these things. Indeed, the "devil is in the details". And Ronald Reagan never signed off on any of these hyper-liberal State Dept. and now USTR contortions of his policies. Hence, Ronald Reagan did not create this version of NAFTA (which he visualized as a simple reduction of barriers, not a regime)(subsequently foisted off in the end of GHWB's term as a lame duck, and then implemented by Xlintonian give-aways and socialism), or GATT for that matter (with its erection of a super-government the WTO in the last 14 pages). And it certain that Reagan would have rejected the unconstitutional and government-heavy albatross that they were becoming...with 20,000 pages.
Hence, the plain fact is, he never had it implemented on his watch. Plus, whatever he would have had passed, it would have not given away the store in compromises on behalf of the third world, that endangered our own long term industrial position.
And Reagan believed in TRUE free trade, not your phoney, twisted, contorted, confabulotory excretion that you claim is free trade. Hence, Reagan defended the steel industry with tariffs he imposed to retaliate for the mercanitilistic dumping of foreign countries. As has GWB after him. And he imposed the domestic-content quotas expressly against the Japanese for not only the auto industry but their consumer electronics and heavy industry as well. The whole point of his restraints was a necessary retaliation to persuade the Japanese to engage in true bilateral free trade reciprocity. And it eventually succeeded to a degree, whereas sweet reason fell on deaf ears. As it continues to fail with your employers, the Chinese Communist Party.
Reagan also firmly believed in Adam Smith's expressed exceptions to his general advocacy fore free trade...national defense, retaliation for foreign restrictions, and primary national objectives, such as funding the government or promoting a necessary or vital industry.
Harry Browne says 9/11 was America's fault? I don't think that is QUITE what either he or Jerry Falwell were saying. Except for our own neglect. Letting an criminal oathe-breaking and lawless imposter and treasonous fraud into the White House. And to the extent we, in open-border-hubris...let the terrorists in, even knew about it, but Xlinton suppressed any action.
And conveniently, all of Xlinton's hold-overs that GWB so generously let stay on...from Richard Clarke to George Tenet...never informed the new team, from Rice, Powell, Rumsfeld or Bush or Cheney themselves...about the failed Al-Queda plane terror plot Project Bojinka, the resulting Top-Secret Al Gore-led Airline Security Commission, and its recommendations that Xlinton refused to implement (couldn't let those expensive fixes wreck his precious economy for reelection), or the DOD's anti-terrorist infiltration/surveillance ABLE DANGER task force. H'mmm.