ANTITRUST POLICY AND TRADE POLICY: AN ECONOMIST'S PERSPECTIVE

policy? This would be the consequence of a proconsumer trade policy. Such trade policy would not conflict with antitrust policy. Antitrust policy and international trade policy dovetail when each is used to expand the scope of voluntary exchange or what we might call free trade. Conceptually our nation's trade policy should be a negotiating device to reduce our own import barriers and the trade barriers of other nations.