That's what I see often in the last 30 years. "free trade" has to be minimally free both ways to benefit us. In all the free trade agreements, the devil is in the details. Just calling it "free trade" doesn't make it so.

Are agricultural products freely traded anywhere, including the US?
What about aerospace: Was the airbus the result of a free and unsubsidized market?
OK what about cars: Did Japan engage in free trade policies in the 70's in their Xray attacks on the US car market?
Lets see: steel? sugar? electronics? oil?

Freer trade is inevitable (I think) but when the US gives access lets get access in return.

as for the concrete point, if a car factory moves 100 miles across the US-Mexico border, it doesn't increase the standard of living here does it? but it does help keep a few thousand mexican workers at home.

bill