In what should be a clear win for American workers and taxpayers, the United States is moving forward with a significant trade agreement with India — and it’s about time conservatives cheered one of these deals instead of reflexively bracing for another giveaway.

For years, free-trade rhetoric from both parties too often translated into deals that hollowed out American manufacturing while enriching foreign competitors and multinational corporations. But this new agreement represents a strategic rethink: tie economic opportunity to national security, global competition, and reciprocal access — not one-way traffic for cheap imports: