by Michael Stumo Opposition to rigged trade deals drove the results another primary contest. Sanders continues outperforming expectations with a win in West Virginia’s Dem primary yesterday, even though Clinton has opposed the TPP. Trump won as expected now that he has no opponents remaining. Exit polls showed how powerful the issue of dumb trade…
In the coming months, Congress will likely face a vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a massive trade deal covering 12 countries and 40 percent of global trade. It’s the largest trade deal the United States has ever negotiated, and would have an enormous effect on workers in every corner of the country. [Senator Franken| May 07,…
New Democrat Coalition Vice-Chair Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) late last week said there is a “50-50” chance that the Trans-Pacific Partnership will come up for a vote in a potential lame-duck session of Congress this year due to an unprecedented loss of support for free trade in both parties and the possibility that Republicans will…
On the fourth anniversary of the Korean trade deal, its lofty promises have been revealed as putrid pie in the sky: More jobs lost. No exports gained. [Leo Gerard| May 9, 2016 |Huffington Post] Just like NAFTA, just like China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), free traders swore that the Korean deal would…
The latest round of talks on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) provoked angry protests in Europe, particularly in Germany–and almost total indifference in the U.S. That raises the question of why it’s being negotiated in the first place. There is already plenty of trade flowing in both directions across the Atlantic. E.U. investment…
