The Trans Pacific trade pact promises us cheaper food with sketchier ingredients. American farmers will face upheaval and more dislocation, while corporate agriculture thrives. If China assembles my Apple iPhone with its global mixture of ingredients, shouldn’t Asians at least eat Washington apples? Maybe not while China produces nine times as many apples as…
WASHINGTON — United States exports were hurt by an ailing global economy in August and imports from China surged, propelling the largest expansion of America’s trade deficit in five months. [ Reuters | October 6, 2015 | The New York Times ] The data released on Tuesday by the Commerce Department illustrate the American…
Hillary Clinton gave a big boost to opponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership when, in an interview on the PBS NewsHour Wednesday, she voiced her opposition to the just-completed “trade” treaty. [by Dave Johnson | October 8, 2015 | Campaign for America’s Future] Clinton joins fellow Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley, all…
The contract disputes between steel companies such as Allegheny Technologies Inc. Flat-Rolled Products and their union employees involve a third, silent party. [Reposted from TribLive | Tom Yerace | October 11, 2015] That would be foreign competition, particularly from China, whose manufacturers have been flooding the markets for years with steel, including stainless grades such…