Report: China WTO Accession Outcomes Hold Troubling Precedents For A BIT Agreement

A report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission released Aug. 1 openly questions whether a bilateral investment treaty will create jobs in the U.S. or cause more jobs and production to be outsourced to China, which would follow the precedent set by the U.S. granting China Permanent Normal Trade Relations status in 2000 resulting in…

A Lame Duck Vote on TPP Would Leave Americans Feeling Cheated

President Obama vilified Donald Trump’s lifelong behavior of leaving people with the feeling of being cheated. President Obama, what about your signing TPP into law after passage during the lame-duck session? Candidates Clinton, Trump and Stein all oppose TPP versus Johnson who recently flipped to favor TPP. [Hugh J. Campbell| August 1, 2016 |United Steel…