I just found this in Reuters about those WTO/TPP "Free-Trade" cult people:
Trade is no longer seen as the growth-booster it was before the financial crisis, particularly in emerging economies. Even politicians normally friendly to business - like Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi - aren't terribly keen to invest their political capital in dismantling barriers to exchange. For Modi, agreeing to the World Trade Organization deal that lapsed on July 31 would have exposed the country's domestic farm-support policies to challenges by trading partners.
It's hard to lay other trade failures at India's door. The Doha round of trade negotiations is practically dead, while the ongoing Trans-Pacific Partnership discussions aren't faring much better, with even some U.S. politicians questioning the secrecy surrounding the talks. There hasn't been significant global trade reform in two decades.
The prospect for ambitious trade agreements is now rather dim. Rich nations have practically stopped giving new business to producers in emerging economies. Even trade between developing countries is growing much more slowly than before the 2008 crisis. This shrinks the political space available in emerging markets for governments to act as free-trade evangelists.
The story always told by both establishment Democrats and Republicans is that "free-trade" (as written up and defined in these "trade agreements") is "good for America", but 20+ years along I am still waiting to see that. I actually think our American economy is worse now that it was in 1993.
I guess it's poll worthy: