Perhaps the most famous case is Great Britain in the mid-nineteenth century.
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/schonhar/docs/books/Orourkes%20review.pdf
https://mises.org/library/what-crushed-corn-laws
Bastiat led the intellectual movement for free trade in France around the same time.
https://mises.org/library/biography-frederic-bastiat-1801-1850-between-french-and-marginalist-revolutions
https://mises.org/library/comment-french-liberal-school-0
Chile is cited as a more recent case.
http://www.nber.org/papers/w6510
