Barack Obama, the Anti-NAFTA Democratic Candidate, sunk in Hillary Clinton in 2008. A recent Poll shows unaffiliated voters by a 52% to 24% margin think NAFTA needs to be renegotiated and voters overall are more critical of U.S. free trade agreements than voters eight years ago. [Hugh Campbell| July 9, 2016 |OpedNews] In general, men…
Amid boos from the sidelines, allies of Hillary Clinton and President Obama on Saturday beat back an effort by the Bernie Sanders campaign to have the Democratic Party officially oppose a congressional vote on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. [Patrick Healy| July 9, 2016 |The New York Times] At a sometimes-raucous meeting in Orlando, Fla., of the party’s platform committee, which is drawing…
Ohio Sen. Rob Portman invoked Trump’s ubiquitous Twitter feed in signaling his approval for the Republican presidential candidate’s get-tough-on-China trade policy. The former U.S. Trade Representative has taken a defensive stance on trade, including opposition to the TPP, as he tries to retain his seat in a state not too fond of free-trade agreements. [Adam…
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…
