The shipping container has done this again over the past 50 years: there is almost no level of legal or tax tradeprotection that could have stopped foreign goods getting ever cheaper as the costs of hauling things from country to country fell ever lower.
Reversing a lower court in a closely watched case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit has determined that a trade treaty that restores copyright protection to foreign works previously in the public domain is not unconstitutional.
Washington is hardly unique in wanting a liberal world system of open trade, freedom of the seas, enforceable rules of contract and protection for foreign investment.