Sugar (from Brazil), steel (from everywhere), pretty much most agricultural subsidies are directly contrary to free trade principles, open skies limits (foreign

Sugar (from Brazil), steel (from everywhere), pretty much most agricultural subsidies are directly contrary to free trade principles, open skies limits (foreign airlines have a hard time flying to various US destinations and cannot do US-US flights without major wrangling). And that's just off the top of my head. The US is definitely high on the free trade hypocrisy list. The US spent the 80s and 90s loudly excoriating the world for not signing up to the endless free lunches of free trade (read: import US stuff). Once the world signed up, the US started putting up domestic protectionist barriers. The most high profile case I remember is the steel import restriction debacle, but the rest matter too. Don't forget that the Japanese car companies had to move production to the US in 1981 to pacify the government, and for a long time they imposed "voluntary" limits on themselves to stave off the eventual US trade restrictions.