Rod Speed wrote:

That isnt how all of the USA, Canada, India,
China, Taiwan, Korea, Bangladesh, Singapore,
etc etc etc trade under the WTO rules now.

There are trade agreements between most of these countries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bilateral_free_trade_agreements.
If as you say the WTO rules are just as good,
why do they go to the trouble (lots of trouble)
of negotiating trade deals?
Why is the EU negotiating with Canada?
What is the point of the Asia-Pacific trade agreement?
Or innumerable other trade deals?

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Timothy Murphy
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School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin