[Peter Morici | November 12, 2016 |New York Post] To win the presidency, Donald Trump promised to cut taxes, boost energy production, roll back excessive business regulations and much more, but nothing would deliver more punch for growth and jobs than his promise to fix America’s broken trade policy. The economic reasoning behind free trade…
[Kevin Kearns | November 11, 2016 |PoliZette] When Donald Trump embarks on his new trade agenda in January, he will face sustained resistance from those who opposed his primary and presidential campaigns — i.e., those whose views working Americans repudiated in the recent election. Essentially, Trump’s agenda has been criticized from the moment the Establishment realized…
[KEITH BRADSHER | November 11, 2016 |The New York Times] SHANGHAI — As a candidate, Donald J. Trump aimed some of his most blistering words at China, declaring that “we already have a trade war” and suggesting ominously that “we have the power over China, economic power.” As president of the United States, Mr. Trump can use trade — a…
[JACKIE CALMES | November 11, 2016 |The New York Times] WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders confirmed this week what seemed inevitable with the triumph of Donald J. Trump: The far-reaching trade agreement with 11 other Pacific Rim nations that President Obama hoped to leave as a major legacy, but which Mr. Trump called “a terrible deal,” is…
[JORDAIN CARNEY| November 11, 2016 |The Hill] Sen. Charles Schumer is signaling that President Obama’s signature trade agreement won’t clear Congress, roughly two days after Republican Donald Trump — who opposes the deal — won the White House. A source familiar with the New York Democrat’s remarks said he told the AFL-CIO executive council that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell(R-Ky.)…
[November 10, 2016 |Nikkei] TOKYO (Kyodo) — Japan’s House of Representatives voted to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement and passed a related bill Thursday, despite diminishing prospects for the ratification of the pact by the United States following Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential election. Following the vote during a plenary session of the Diet’s…
[Daily News | November 11, 2016 |Inside US Trade] European Union Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations will be on hold for quite some time after the U.S. presidential election, and that she is unsure of whether President-elect Donald Trump will want to pick up the talks. For quite…
[Daily News | November 11, 2016 |Inside US Trade] Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), a leading Trans-Pacific Partnership opponent, is declaring victory now that the trade deal is highly unlikely to be taken up by Congress anytime soon, if ever. DeLauro, in a statement, lauded the “news” that the the administration will not pursue TPP in…
[Gerald F. Seib | November 11, 2016 |Wall Street Journal] From the day he rode down an escalator at Trump Tower to launch his campaign, Donald Trump’s candidacy was identified most often with one issue: fighting illegal immigration. A deeper look into the results of the election that propelled him to the presidency, however, suggests the real…
[Daily News | November 09, 2016 |Inside US Trade] Donald Trump’s decisive win in the presidential election leaves the future of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership up in the air as the president-elect has provided little detail on his stance on the ongoing negotiations with the European Union, while his broader anti-trade rhetoric has…
