Now we turn to Obama’s stance on free trade.  Obama happens to fit very nicely into our taxonomy of views on trade.  He falls into the category of people that recognizes the benefits of free trade but is wary of the process by which trade achieves its ends.  Obama is a member of the CMOS wing and the CMAT wing of free-traders.  A proponent of cave mercatem and meeting our standards and assisted trade as described in an earlier post.  Obama’s believes that a myriad of standards should be prerequisites to existing and future trade pacts.  He labels his brand of free-trade as “fair-trade.”  [Read more →]