[Free trade agreements] are trade agreements that don't
Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.
(n.) The doctrine or policy of protectionists. See Protection, 4.
Where there is commerce there is peace.
The IPL, involving the socialist principle of a salary cap and the protectionist mechanism of quotas, is not perhaps the best example of a market left flourishingly to its own devices and dynamics.
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.