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Despite his legacy as a free trader, U.S. President Ronald Reagan sought to stem the tide of American deindustrialization with 100 percent tariffs on certain Japanese products and import quotas to protect American industry.
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Wally Adeyemo, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
Modern-day protectionists have seized on it to cast Reagan as something less than a free trader, and fans of the current president have used these sentiments to link The Gipper to The Donald.
—Joseph Thorndike, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
But free traders need to understand that, to the extent the tariffs are ...
—Joseph Palange, National Review, 16 Apr. 2025
Populists who preferred a street fighter to a statesman; a domestic industrialist to a free trader; a quasi-isolationist to an internationalist.
—David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 26 Mar. 2025
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Wally Adeyemo, Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
Modern-day protectionists have seized on it to cast Reagan as something less than a free trader, and fans of the current president have used these sentiments to link The Gipper to The Donald.
—Joseph Thorndike, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
But free traders need to understand that, to the extent the tariffs are ...
—Joseph Palange, National Review, 16 Apr. 2025
Populists who preferred a street fighter to a statesman; a domestic industrialist to a free trader; a quasi-isolationist to an internationalist.
—David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Free trader.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/free%20trader. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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