Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton signaled opposition to holding a lame-duck vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership in a candidate questionnaire released today by an anti-TPP activist group. [Daily News| May 6, 2016 |Inside US Trade] “I have said I oppose the TPP agreement – and that means before and after the election,” Clinton said in response to…
by Michael Stumo This guy, Tim Worstall, is really off the rails. Forbes will print any swill, it seems. But the entire point of trade, of trade deals, as far as America is concerned is the imports which America can buy from the rest of the world. For it is the imports which make us…
It’s amazing how just a little transparency forced onto the free trade deals the Obama administration been negotiating in secret totally turns the public against them. [Trevor Timm| May 4, 2016 |The Guardian] After the contents of the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the US and the European Union was leaked and published by Greenpeace a…
I’m obviously not about to endorse the guy (here’s where I said nice things about polar opposite Bernie Sanders) but please forgive me crowing for a minute about being vindicated (though I can’t claim to be always right) concerning Donald Trump’s seriousness and viability as a Republican candidate. [Ian Fletcher| May 5, 2016 |Huffington Post] In September 2015 — oh…
CARDIFF, Wales — With thunderous roars and flashes of blue light, an electric arc furnace at a steel mill in this industrial city melts 170 tons of scrap metal at a time, which is made into reinforcing bars for construction projects across Britain. [Stanley Reed & Keith Bradsher| May 3, 2016 |The New York Times]…
Republican front-runner Donald Trump‘s warning against the “false song of globalism” strikes a sharply different note than President Obama did in his recent performance in London. [Curtis Ellis| May 2, 2016 |The Hill] Obama has provided further evidence that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) more closely resembles a scheme for international governance like the European Union rather…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) this week strongly downplayed the chances for a congressional vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership in a lame-duck session, though he stopped short of completely ruling it out. [Daily News| May 5, 2016 |Inside US Trade] McConnell, in a May 1 interview with the agriculture news service AgriPulse, declined to…
When the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) was passed just over four years ago, President Obama said that the agreement would support 70,000 U.S. jobs. This claim was supported by a White House fact sheet that claimed that the KORUS agreement would “increase exports of American goods by $10 to $11 billion…” and that they would “support 70,000…
Coalition for a Prosperous America CEO Michael Stumo claims that the TPP free trade agreement is unlikely to put the United States in a better position than countries like China to write and enforce the rules of the global economy. [May 4, 2016 |Sputnik News] WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement is…
In a recent op-ed piece for The Washington Post, US President Barack Obama noted that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would help his country lead in global trade. Analyst William Jones said the economic consequences of the initiative will be disastrous. [May 4, 2016 |Sputnik News] “America should write the rules. America should call the shots.…
