By Michael Stumo I was in Washington last week discussing future trade policy with both GOP and Dem offices. What struck me is the focus on process in trade deals and a discomfort with performance based goals. Let’s say we renegotiate NAFTA. What should we do? Many congressional offices that want trade reform have a…
[John Hayward| November 16, 2016 |Breitbart] Economist Alan Tonelson, founder of the economics and public policy blog RealityChek, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to talk about Donald Trump’s vision for the economy. Tonelson said it was “painfully clear” that “tens of millions of American voters were reacting to not only the version of…
By Michael Stumo President-elect Trump said, in a video yesterday, that the first action he will take as President is to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Thank goodness. But then he said, “Instead, we will negotiate fair, bilateral trade agreements that bring jobs and industries back onto American shores.” Trump should re-examine whether there is…
[Alex Buggae| November 22, 2016 |Yahoo] LISBON (Reuters) – The incoming head of the United Nations warned on Tuesday that “losers of globalization” in rich countries have felt ignored by establishment politicians, prompting them to turn to nationalist agendas, as in the U.S. election and Brexit referendum. Antonio Guterres, elected in October to take over…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENovember 22, 2016 Contact: Paola Masman, Media Director 202-688-5145 ext 2, [email protected] CPA Applauds Trump’s Promise to Withdraw from TPP Washington~ President elect, Donald Trump, issued a video on Monday outlining his policy plans for his first 100 days in office and vowing to issue a note of intent to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership…
[Ian Fletcher| November 17, 2016 |Huffington Post] Trump’s election represents a lot of things, but one thing that doesn’t seem to have been quite noticed as much as it should be is this: it is the Battle of Waterloo, the final decisive defeat, of market fundamentalism. Market fundamentalism, for readers unfamiliar with the term, is the belief…
[James Trimargo| November 18, 2016 |Yes Magazine] Amid the fallout from Donald Trump’s election is the end of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. After six years of negotiations, the controversial trade deal is dead. Its proponents were caught off guard. Just a week before the election, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman was telling CNBC that members of Congress were…
[Peter Morici| November 20, 2016 |Washington Times] Globalization is inevitable and nothing about the presidential campaign changed that. Ever since merchants first moved among human settlements, people have exchanged goods, blended cultures and specialized to create wealth, but trade also creates winners and losers. Donald Trump has seized on an enduring truth: whether America or…
[Daily News| November 18, 2016 |Inside US Trade] Just over week after the election of Donald Trump effectively eliminated the chances for a vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership this year, Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee said they see a path forward in working with the president-elect on trade policy — including the possibility…
[Daily News| November 16, 2016 |Inside US Trade] Senate Finance Committee member Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is calling for President-elect Trump to conduct a sweeping review of the United States’ trade relationship with China, pick a U.S. Trade Representative with a background in manufacturing, ditch the Trans-Pacific Partnership and renegotiate NAFTA. “Donald Trump made a lot…
