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Trump has claimed that the Koch brothers are against "Powerful Trade" - his capitalization:



Koch Industries, Inc. is an American multinational corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest landowner in the Athabasca oil sands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Industries

They have made billions through trade. They are clearly pro-trade. Since this tweet must be aimed at Trump supporters, can you tell us what "Powerful Trade" is, and how it's different from "trade"?
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Mercantilism
It promotes government regulation of a nation's economy for the purpose of augmenting state power at the expense of rival national powers. Mercantilism includes a national economic policy aimed at accumulating monetary reserves through a positive balance of trade, especially of finished goods. Historically, such policies frequently led to war and also motivated colonial expansion.

High tariffs, especially on manufactured goods, were an almost universal feature of mercantilist policy. Mercantilism and protectionism are applied through the same economic measures. But mercantilism is an offensive policy aimed at accumulating the largest trade surplus, while protectionism is a defensive policy aimed at reducing the trade deficit and restoring a trade balance in equilibrium to protect the economy.[4][5] However, they both aim to reduce a possible current account deficit or reach a current account surplus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism

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