When individuals in other nations suffer the economic pain of inflation through declining investment, we too hurt for the natural expansion of the global division of labor that authors our economic specialization being halted to varying degrees.
Free trade is the happy process that allows us to acquire as much as possible for as little as possible, all the while boosting our individual economic specialization.
Free trade raises our standard of living, not by adding jobs, but by increasing what Adam Smith called the division and specialization of labor, making jobs more productive.