If they were free-trade, they wouldn't need thousands of pages of legalese. What it is is "managed trade", an agreement essentially made to benefit certain larg

If they were free-trade, they wouldn't need thousands of pages of legalese. What it is is "managed trade", an agreement essentially made to benefit certain large corporations (as you pointed out), but also to restrict and to make many exceptions. Indeed. These kinds of agreements are like DRM for economics.