Here’s the biggest issue with ‘free trade’ - The theory is that it opens markets around the world to US goods. What happens in practice is it opens markets around the world to produce US goods which we then import duty free.
There it is in short. And while they hem and haw over this simple statement, yes, I do know it is too late to close the barn door, the cow’s already gone, but we can certainly put pressure on companies to bring assembly back on shore.
“Free trade” might be workable, if we weren’t doing everything possible to make starting and running a business here in this country as expensive and difficult as possible.