Having a FTA with a "richer" country is, in fact, a reason to be secure

Even if there was a legal tool to make all free trade agreements invalid, it would simply bring more harm than good. In every single state that there is a free trade agreement (92.5% of the World's GDP[1]) , there are industries that have been developed entirely for the sole purpose of selling them to other countries and surely, the competitive enviroment that has been created demands free trade agreements in order for a country to be more attractive to foreign trade. In every single treaty, there will always be a "poorer" state, sincethere is no pair of states that have the exact same GDP, so implementing a certain policy would also be a very dificult task that was never addressed by the proposition side. Anyway, most of the free trade agreements are made among countries with common interests or similar economies. A vast majority of the free trade agreements are bewteen countries within a given region. Even in cases where we can see a certain economical disparity, this states (I recall, most of the states in the World) are already used to that and there is no way we can retrocede decades to the times where we found no FTAs. As we have defended since our first point, theer will always be comparative advantage for every state in a certain market involved with a Free Trade Agreement and so, they have specialized markets on the products they can offer. The markets are used to that and so, having no free trade would totally decrease major possibilities of trade and that will demoolish industries. As an example I can take México. I cannot imagine how could México be if it wasn't for the NAFTA. I will not negate the possibility that the "rich" countries of United States of America and Canada may have had more benefits than México out of this FTA, but there will always be a nation with a bit more of advantage (even if it is a quarter of a centh) and that is normal. However, it is because of the NAFTA that México could overcome the "Tequila Effect" crisis and let its economy not fall down as much as it could've. December, Nineteen ninety four started hard times México with a major economical crisis. Just a year after NAFTA had been signed, the United States of America could not leave their trade partners fall down and they destined thenths of thousand of millions of Dollars were sent to México (plus millions of the other NAFTA partner, Canada) and the Mexican Peso "just" fell down to an exchange rate of six Pesos an US Dollar, from the original two. I just wonder if México had not signed the NAFTA treaty one year before...We would've really had very tough childhoods. Fortunately, it was a free trade agreement that let México not reverse to 1915 in matter of social and economical instability and that let foreign investment develop more industries, like the now 6th largest in the world airplane-exporter industry, the Mexican one. All free trade agreements depend on every single partner and the fact that a poorer country has a country with a larger economy taking them by the hand should not be a concern, but a great soure of security. An older brother will never let his small brother fall because then he would also be failing as a smaller brother. 1. ^http://www.trade.gov/fta/index.asp