Issue Position: Free and Fair Trade is Essential to Continued Economic Growth
Press Release
Issues: Trade
Most historians agree that the Smoot Hawley tariff, passed in 1930, was the main cause of the misery known as the Great Depression. Free and fair trade is essential to continued economic growth. When we buy goods from the rest of the world, they have money to buy our goods. Free trade creates jobs and lowers prices. Legitimate concerns exist about free trade being fair, but the rules governing trade with our global partners should protect American interests while expanding free trade.
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