TPP Financial Services Chapter Opens Door To Broader ISDS Claims

  Updated: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) chapter on financial services gives private firms in that sector broader grounds to sue member governments than previous U.S. free trade agreements by incorporating obligations for parties to accord a “minimum standard of treatment” to financial services investments and subjecting that commitment to investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). November 10,…

Obama’s Trade Deal is in Trouble

  President Obama’s trade deal with 11 other Pacific Rim countries is in deep trouble with Congress. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) haven’t decided whether they’re going to support the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) — even after they helped the president win fast-track authority in a bruising interparty fight…

CAF: Donald Trump Was Correct About TPP And China

When talking about trade and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Republican candidate Donald Trump was correct about China. [Reposted from the Campaign for America’s Future blog  |  Dave Johnson  |  Novmeber 12, 2015] In the fourth Republican debate that took place in Milwaukee Tuesday, a moderator asked about Trump’s opposition to TPP. ● Moderator: “… the…

Leo Gerard: The TPP: Another Deadly Trade Deal

Americans who once earned family-supporting wages working in factories, foundries and mills across this country began destroying themselves at a shocking rate five years after implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). [Reposted from Campaign for America’s Future  |  Leo Gerard  |  November 0, 2015] That’s because such deals – schemes exactly like…

Breitbart: CAMPAIGN MGR ON TPP: TRUMP COMMITTED TO BILATERAL RENEGOTIATIONS, SEEKING TWO-THIRDS VOTE IN SENATE

On Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125, Donald Trump’s campaign manager said Trump is committed to renegotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement with the 11 nations and then honoring the Constitution by getting two-thirds of the Senate to approve those bilateral agreements. [Reposted from Breitbart  |  Tony Lee  |  November 11,…

PR Newswire: USW Applauds Trade Duties Kept on China Steel Plate Imports

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The United Steelworkers (USW) confirmed a unanimous vote by the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) to sustain anti-dumping duties on steel plate imports from China that are protecting thousands of American union steelworker jobs at plate mills in Pennsylvania, Indiana and Louisiana. [Reposted from PR Newswire  |  November 10,…