What are the advantages and disadvantages of free trade and NAFTA?
The advantages mainly falls on business that can basically go to any countries with the cheapest work force and cost to produce their items and then still able to sell their products without any tariff in any participating countries. They argue that public will get cheaper price because of the competitiveness of free trade, but opposite argument will present that in the example of advance nation like America or Australia, that’s not the end of the argument as there’s not much use if the population pay less for the products when all the good paying jobs are getting shipped out of the country. America is actually a very good example of excessive free trade with all American companies producing the products in Mexico, China or Vietnam. Manufacturing jobs basically nearly non-existent inside United States itself and eventhough their president insist on showing such low level of unemployment in America, all those jobs lies in service industry and mostly are low paying jobs. Other advantage
As Justice Robert H. Jackson – a Democrat appointee – said in Duckworth v. Arkansas, 314 U.S. 390 (1941): – The opinion of the Court solves the present case through a construction of the interstate commerce power. It regards this liquor as a legitimate subject of a lawful commerce, and then, because of its special characteristics, approves this admittedly novel permit system, and thus expands the power of the state to regulate such lawful commerce beyond anything this Court has yet approved. The extent to which state legislation may be allowed to affect the conduct of interstate business in the absence of Congressional action on the subject has long been a vexatious problem. Recently, the tendency has been to abandon the earlier limitations and to sustain more freely such state laws on the ground that Congress has power to supersede them with regulation of its own. It is a tempting escape from a difficult question to pass to Congress the responsibility for continued existence of local
