[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…
[Daily News | November 09, 2016 |Inside US Trade] In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s victory, Trans-Pacific Partnership opponents and proponents alike see the Pacific trade deal as effectively dead — citing the president-elect’s opposition to it and the unwillingness of Republican congressional leaders to bring up the controversial deal for a vote in a…
[ADAM BEHSUDI and NANCY COOK | November 10, 2016 |Politico] President-elect Donald Trump plans to move quickly to fulfill some of his most controversial campaign promises related to what he derided as “job-killing” trade policies, according to an internal transition team document shared with POLITICO. Within the first 100 days, his administration will drop out of the…
[ GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI and MADELINE CONWAY | November 10, 2016 |Politico] With Hillary Clinton cast aside as the torchbearer for the Democratic Party, Elizabeth Warren is trying to pick up the flame. Clearly aiming to provide Democrats with a path forward in the Donald Trump era, the progressive hero lit into the president-elect with her typical force during…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENovember 14, 2016 Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106[email protected] WASHINGTON (November 14, 2016) – National Farmers Union (NFU) extended a congratulatory letter to President-elect Donald J. Trump, outlining opportunities to work together with the new administration on several common ground farm policy issues. “We appreciate the attention that Mr. Trump paid to issues that affect family…
Blurb from BBC World Service: Today we anticipate the deeper economic truths of a Trump presidency. What’s the plan? The President-Elect promises the revival of US heavy industry, stamping out unfair foreign trade deals, generating new jobs for working-class Americans. Opponents and foreign governments fear this could imply trade war. So what kind of economy will…
