[central_va]

Please show me the section of the Constitution which includes these as functions of the federal government.

They are not. That is not an argument I would use for ending Free Trade. There are tons of reason why our economy is dying due to Free Trade and that is not one of them IMO.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

I agree that some of the trade agreements we've entered into in recent decades are heavily larded with cronyism, and I'd scrap them as fast as you would.

But trying to solve cronyism and over-regulation with tariffs is like trying to cure cancer by contracting syphilis.