[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.
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.
Where there is commerce there is peace.
The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.