> boasting proudly to the business world that #Reagan had “granted more import relief to #USIndustry than any of his predecessors in more than half a century”; in fact, more than all predecessors combined, as they led “the sustained assault on [#FreeTrade] principle”.. deplored in a scholarly review by #GATT secretariat economist #PatrickLow, who estimates the restrictive effects of #Reaganite measures at about three times those of other leading industrial countries.
https://chomsky.info/199705__/