Red, white and blue balloons flooded the Wells Fargo Center following a speech in which Hillary Clinton simultaneously hit Donald Trump while presenting a vision for stabilizing the U.S. economy and middle class. [Adam Behsudi | July 29, 2016 |Politico] “If you believe that we should say no to unfair trade deals, that we should…
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) believes Republicans in Congress can work with Donald Trump on trade if the GOP nominee wins the White House. [Daily News | July 27, 2016 |Inside US Trade] Trump has been adamantly opposed to major multilateral trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership and NAFTA, threatening high tariffs for countries like…
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday that because of a handful of problems with the pact that the Obama administration has yet to fix, he doesn’t expect a vote to come up this year. [Megan Cassella July 27, 2016 |Politico] “I think the administration screwed up negotiating it,” Ryan said at a luncheon in Milwaukee, according to…
Michele Nash-Hoff Michele Nash-Hoff is president of Electro Fab Sales and chair of the California Chapter of the Coalition for a Prosperous America. [Michele Nash-Hoff| July 25, 2016 |San Diego Business Journal] The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership will cause the same economic havoc as the North American Free Trade Agreement. The boost to the San Diego…
Here, in a nutshell, is the dilemma of putting Pence on the ticket: His duties as VP require him to agree with Trump but he was named VP in the first place because he doesn’t always agree with Trump. He was a “unity” pick, designed to show wary conservatives that Trump’s GOP still has a place for their…
These are interesting times. Sen. Ted Cruz refused to endorse Donald Trump in the GOP convention. Sen. Bernie Sanders did endorse Hillary Clinton but his supporters tanked Debbie Wasserman Schultz and protested speakers at the Democratic convention. [Michael Stumo| July 27, 2016 |The Hill] Trump has promoted a nationalist message of “America First” in trade and foreign relations, opposing or questioning the TPP,…
Republican White House nominee Donald Trump has suggested that the United States could pull out of the World Trade Organization if he is elected president. [PTI| July 25, 2016 |News Nation] The New York billionaire made the comments yesterday during a wide-ranging interview with NBC television’s “Meet the Press,” his first since being crowned as his party’s…
The prospects for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are not looking very good right now. Both parties’ presidential candidates have come out against the deal. Donald Trump has placed it at the top of his list of bad trade deals that he wants to stop or reverse. Hillary Clinton had been a supporter as Secretary of…
The AFL-CIO issued a statement this weekend lauding Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine for changing his stance on the Trans-Pacific Partnership now that he’s Hillary Clinton’s pick for vice president. [Daily News| July 25, 2016 |Inside US Trade] For the labor group, which has endorsed Clinton, the decision “signifies the beginning of a new era,” it…
Hillary Clinton has claimed that Donald Trump‘s trade policies will start a “trade war” but what she fails to recognize is that we are already in one. Trump clearly sees it and he will work to put an end to it. [Dan DiMicco| July 19, 2016 |CNBC] With some nations exercising mercantilism — predatory export pricing and…