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Want free trade? May I introduce you to the tariff
Countries with democratic governments and mostly free economies should come together and create a new trade regime, based on balance.
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What brought down the post-war trading order was the rise in many countries of pernicious industrial policies, says the writer.
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Robert E. Lighthizer
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The international trading system has failed America and many other countries around the world. No one has done more than President Donald Trump to bring attention to this broad failure.
By imposing tariffs on China (and threatening to impose them on Mexico and Canada), he has taken an immediate measure that is driven by an urgent national security issue – the fentanyl crisis, which is killing thousands of American citizens every month.
