Free trade should be a norm

1. Free trade causes the flooding of exports which turns countries to protectionism methods http://ictsd.org... The United States has had problems in the past with free trade, dealing mainly with Latin American countries. In 2012 Brazil's economy started to struggle as the United States began to flood exports to their country which was deflating the Brazilian coinage. When the United States floods another countries market the country has to close off free trade, or leave their economy to be cannibalized. So my opponent by advocating for free trade is also advocating for protectionism which makes his economic thinking circular. 2. Trade kills jobs NAFTA proves https://www.citizen.org... Lets just looks at a great example of free trade, the North American Free Trade Agreement or (NAFTA). Over the 20 years NAFTA has been in place the United States has loss over 1 million net jobs because of the increasing of trade. NAFTA also destroyed 1 in 4 manufacturing jobs over the time period were the United States loss 5 millions manufacturing jobs in a 20 year span. Now my opponent tries to make a claim about how its okay if we lose jobs because they will be replaced with something better, three answers to this. A. Trade will never replace the 1 million net jobs we lost. B. Jobs replacing the jobs we loss in manufacturing aren't as key to the economy like manufacturing jobs, plus continuing globalization means technology will soon replace these jobs. C. Outsourcing jobs usually occur because the company believes they can do something cheaper, which means the inequality gap will continue to widen. 3. Regulations provide the best for competition http://www.oft.gov.uk... Key part of the economy is consumer confidence in business and in the government. Without regulations there are no guarantees business will maintain consumer confidence. If consumer confidence goes down then, currency flow goes down, and if currency flow goes down then trade goes down. Regulations are key to maintain the economy, this is why we have never seen a free capitalism system yet, and why free trade shouldn't be the norm. 4. Free trade causes poverty http://www.huffingtonpost.com... Free trade could offer some decent advantages to already seasoned economy's but what about the economies, that are trying to develop or are underdeveloped? Free trade makes sure to destroy any and all chances of a developing nation because their lack of technology, or lack of industry. Larger economies can swallow up the smaller economies forcing more people to go into poverty 5. Latin America is moving away from free trade. http://www.coha.org... The expansion of free trade was suppose to bring prosperity to Latin American countries, now after review more and more countries are moving away from free trade. The question you must ask is why? It's simply because free trade hasn't worked and this is one of the main reasons why free trade shouldn't be the norm. Not only has NAFTA failed but other attempts of free trade implementation in Latin American has caused poverty, social dumping, and other extreme impacts http://pdfs.postprefix.com... Like Latin America the best option is to move away from free trade and embrace systems which advance economic nationalism. 6. Summary: Free trade causes protectionism which means free trade will never become, the norm. My opponent offers great economic theories, but the only bad thing about theories is they are disproved by empirical data. This is what NAFTA proves all the disadvantages of free trade. The government must always have some regulation in order to advance the economy and this is why free trade shouldn't be the norm.