PRINCETON, N.J. — More than four in 10 Americans say they don’t know enough to say whether the U.S. should end its participation in free trade deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Among Americans who do have an opinion, 28% favor withdrawing from trade treaties, and…
Many times, Congress passes important bills that are go unreported by the mainstream media. Such was the case with the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (DTSA – S. 1890), passed by the Senate and House of Representatives with near unanimous support in April and signed by President Obama on May 11, 2016. This beneficial bill…
Voters of all stripes have recognized the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as another betrayal of working people, and they have resoundingly rejected it. Despite that, President Obama continues to push it, to the extent of possibly seeking passage in a “lame duck” session of Congress. [Thomas Palley| July 5, 2016 | Our Future] President Obama’s pushing…
Donald Trump vowed Tuesday that if elected president he would cancel a pending trade deal with Pacific Rim countries and demand Mexico and Canada accept sweeping changes to NAFTA — or else he will nix that one, too. [S.A. Miller | June 28, 2016 |The Washington Times] It was part of an anti-globalization agenda that the presumptive Republican…
It’s China 1, USA 0 when it comes to so-called “economic warfare.” [Heather Long| June 30, 2016 | CNN Money] As China has risen to become the world’s No. 2 economy, it has repeatedly used its business and financial clout to get what it wants on the world stage, say foreign policy experts Robert Blackwill and…
Donald Trump has just delivered his major speech on trade policy, at an aluminum plant in Monessen, PA. [Ian Fletcher | June 28, 2016 | Huffington Post] You can watch it on YouTube here. There’s a transcript here. Hillary Clinton recently gave a long speech attacking Trump on many things. In it, she retreated from her recent feint against the Trans-Pacific Partnership and attacked…
Bernie Sanders is urging Democrats to oppose holding a vote on a massive Pacific Rim trade deal. [Vicki Needham | June 27, 2016 | The Hill] The Vermont senator wants the party’s platform to make its opposition clear on the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which the White House is trying to push through Congress before President…
[KYODO, AFP-JIJI | June 22, 2016 | Japan Times] Japan does not plan to rework the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal despite U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s suggestion Tuesday that she may try to renegotiate it, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi Hagiuda said on Wednesday. “We are not going to accept any request from the…
Hillary Clinton said Monday that she would appoint a trade prosecutor to protect U.S. workers against bad global policies. [Vicki Needham | June 27, 2016 | The Hill] The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said during a rally in Cincinnati that the nation’s economy will be bolstered and workers’ lives improved by opposing the sweeping Pacific Rim…
It’s time to acknowledge that Donald Trump and Boris Johnson have far more in common than funny hair, and that the movement once known as conservatism—to which both men retain only the barest connection—is taking on a new form, that of an unabashed, xenophobic nationalism. Trump and Johnson have tapped into a profound trend in…
