President Trump has been criticized as being anti-free trade for backing out of multi-lateral free trade agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and renegotiated the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), between the United States, Canada and Mexico. The critics are right.
But being anti-free trade is not necessarily a bad thing, or even un-American. One of the first acts of the new American Congress in 1789 was to use tariffs to protect American companies from British Mercantilism. Tariff’s aren’t always good, but then again, nor is free trade.
