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No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America’s Workers

byRobert Lighthizer

Former U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer argues that trade policy should serve workers, communities, national security, and productive capacity rather than maximize exchange as an end in itself. Drawing on negotiations with China and other partners, he critiques decades of offshoring, persistent deficits, intellectual-property theft, and assumptions that cheap imports benefit everyone. The book defends tariffs, enforcement, industrial policy, and reciprocal market access as tools for rebuilding American leverage. Lighthizer offers an insider's case for economic nationalism and a direct challenge to the bipartisan free-trade consensus.

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780063282131