We’re already in a trade time-out. We have been ever since Congress allowed President Bush’s fast-track trade-negotiating authority to expire last June. Without that authority, which allows the president to submit trade agreements to Congress for an up-or-down vote, Congress can tamper with trade agreements by amending them. The prospect of congressional meddling removes all certainty from the administration’s negotiating process. No country will negotiate free-trade agreements with the U.S. without that certainty. So the cornerstone of Hillary’s trade policy is bunk. It would be like if a team called time-out during halftime.