How Long Does a Free-Trade Agreement Need to Be?

“Various proponents of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) posit that some trade is better than no trade. While that is arguably true in terms of marginal units, these politically crafted bilateral and multilateral agreements should really be called Some Trade, More Trade, or Kinda Free agreements, but certainly not Free Trade.

Better yet, to accurately reflect their true nature, all of them should be called Managed Trade because on each page within every agreement are quotas, stipulations, and byzantine clauses that rival the federal tax code. FULL ARTICLE