Why isn everything “free trade”?
Because the value of everything isn’t equal everywhere you go. When you trade for goods and services, what both sides are looking for is to obtain quality products or services that are either not available in their own country, very rare (and therefore expensive) in their country, or are of a higher quality than in their own country. The resources available to each country are NOT equal to all those around the globe. For example: Vanilla beans. Vanilla beans are only grown commercially in the equitoral band areound the globe. This is because they grow best there. Mexico and the Caribbean is the birth place of the Vanilla bean and the other best places to get it from today are Madagascar, REunion, and the Cormoro Islands, as well as Indonesia and Tahiti. There are also some other smaller regions where it’s grown commercially as well. In the countries where it’s readily available, it’s cheap and of little personal value. BUT, because Vanilla will only grow well in these places, and it’s
