I haven't the faintest idea why you're being downvoted when you're the only one who actually hit the real issue directly. Free trade isn't free. We can not pos

I haven't the faintest idea why you're being downvoted when you're the only one who actually hit the real issue directly. Free trade isn't free. We can not possibly compete fairly with countries who employ indentured servants or slaves compared to our working condition expectations and wages. Nor should we. We need fair trade if we want to keep manufacturing in the country. Further, I'd say it needs to be sustainable if we're going to ever correctly price in the true cost of a product into the retail price. That by definition includes the cradle-to-grave life cycle of a product and all of its constituent parts and raw ingredients.