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Levin is being consistent. Free trade works, between individuals, between states and even between countries. This tariff stuff sounds good to the economically illiterate but it's bad. While the damage of international trade is concentrated and obvious to the makers of widgets, the effect of cheaper goods coming in means that everybody else has more money left over to spend on other things. Free trade is the greater good. Not to mention once you start a trade war the other side hits back.

Can you name any free trade agreements between the US and anyone else that doesn't include tariffs, subsidies, or market protections for certain markets or industries? These agreements are always 1000+ pages long, it would seem a real free trade agreement would be a few paragraphs long.