I am by-in-large a free marketer as well but I believe in reciprocity and fairness. If a nation is willing to be open and free with their market I believe we should be with ours also. I DO NOT however believe that we should cuck ourselves and give other nations full access to our goods/services markets and our financial/capital markets when they do no reciprocate. You put a tariff on us to protect an industry we will do the same to you. This is why bilateral treaties are preferable to multilateral ones. For example Canada is pretty fair in the steel market but extraordinarily unfair with respect to dairy. Mexico on the other hand is fair on produce but unfair on manufacturing. US could target Canada in the dairy realm and Mexico on the manufacturing realm if not for USMCA (which is better than NAFTA by far but still is a multilateral agreement).

In addition no clever games from multinational corporations setting up a subsidiary in a trade friendly country to circumvent tariffs/quotas. Go straight to the parent company.

I am by-in-large a free marketer as well but I believe in reciprocity and fairness. If a nation is willing to be open and free with their market I believe we should be with ours also. I DO NOT however believe that we should cuck ourselves and give other nations full access to our goods/services markets and our financial/capital markets when they do no reciprocate. You put a tariff on us to protect an industry we will do the same to you. This is why bilateral treaties are preferable to multilateral ones. For example Canada is pretty fair in the steel market but extraordinarily unfair with respect to dairy. Mexico on the other hand is fair on produce but unfair on manufacturing. US could target Canada in the dairy realm and Mexico on the manufacturing realm if not for USMCA (which is better than NAFTA by far but still is a multilateral agreement).

In addition no clever games from multinational corporations setting up a subsidiary in a trade friendly country to circumvent tariffs/quotas. Go straight to the parent company.