Your vastly overstating things.  All countries including the US already favor local industry&#x27;s.  Just look at the taxes on sugar.<p>PS: In a wider context, the benefits of free trade are overstated.  Not all industries have equal long term benefits even if the short term looks great.  <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Phosphate_mining_in_Nauru" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Phosphate_mining_in_Nauru</a><p><i>The problem of Nauru presents a paradox. The striking contrast is between a superficially happy state of affairs and an uncertain and indeed alarming future... But this picture of peace and well-being and security is deceptive. Indeed it is a false paradise. For these gentle people are dominated by the knowledge that the present happy state of affairs cannot continue.</i> (1962)