Stop Calling the TPP a Trade Agreement – It Isn’t

[pampango]

11. U.S. tariffs in 1980 were 2.9%. During Reagan's presidency they increased to 3.2%.

Actually he and Eisenhower were the only post-war presidents who increased tariffs during their times in office.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_in_United_States_history

... prior to Reagan's adventure into "free trade" (which I assume you agree with) always had tariffs well above today's 1% rate.

If you consider 3% to be "well above" the 1.3% today, that is fine. Reagan's "adventure into 'free trade'" was a rhetorical adventure rather than a real one.

That FDR cut tariffs to an average rate of 13% is hardly comparable to the near zero rate today.

He not only reversed the high tariffs he inherited from his republican predecessors, he set up the international institutional framework to make sure that countries could work together to further reduce them.

... you conflate the trade policy we had back then, which gave no protections to foreign investment, to the corporate welfare trade deals we have now.

Actually investment protection was included in FDR's International Trade Organization though it went far beyond this and also included labor rights, business regulation and other progressive policy ideas.