One week ago, the Seattle City Council voted to approve a resolution opposing Fast Track.  That resolution can be found here.  In addition, CPA wrote a letter to the City Council to support the resolution.  We received an email back in response, cut and pasted below. Thanks again to the Seattle City Council for opposing…

U.S. and Japanese negotiators are rushing to complete a trade agreement they can unveil during Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Washington later this month, something they hope will pave the way for a broader Asia-Pacific pact involving 10 other countries. [Reposted from Bloomberg  |  Carter Dougherty  |  April 1, 2015] An accord between the…

Canada’s participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiation is at risk because it has “declined to seriously engage” in talks about opening up its dairy, poultry and egg industries, according to the U.S. government’s chief agricultural negotiator, the National Post reported (see related report this issue). Ambassador Darci Vetter said the choice on whether to…

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) — and the rigged “Fast Track” process designed to pass it before the public has a chance to react — has become a new “third rail” for progressives and the activist Democratic “base.” (This is also true on the right, by the way.) Clinton is the number one candidate for president,…

TUAL, Indonesia (AP) — The same trawlers that had enslaved countless migrant fishermen for years carried more than 300 of them to freedom Saturday, following a dramatic rescue from a remote Indonesian island that many men believed would likely be their final resting place. [Reposted from AP.org  |  Robin McDowell and Margie Mason  |  April…

CPA’s effort to delay an expected ITC economic assessment of the TPP was covered in WTTL: An effort by TPP opponents to delay an expected International Trade Commission (ITC) economic impact assessment of the deal was brushed aside by the commission’s public affairs officer, who merely explained the legal process under which the ITC conducts…

The Department of Labor reported this morning that America’s manufacturing sector lost 1,000 jobs in March. [Reposted from the Alliance for American Manufacturing site  |  April 3, 2015] The #AAMeter, which tracks President Obama’s promise to create 1 million new manufacturing jobs in his second term, decreased to +372,000 jobs, after revisions to previous months’…

New York — The United States and Japan are intensifying auto talks aimed at reaching a 12-nation free trade deal — an agreement that could have major impacts for large automakers. [Reposted from The Detroit News  |  David Shepardson  |  April 1, 2015] A deal that opens Japan’s market to U.S. autos is key to…

The Senate Finance Committee has set April 21 as a target date for marking up a bill to renew Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), also called “fast track,” an action that is expected to be preceded by the introduction of the legislation and a Finance Committee hearing just a week beforehand, according to informed sources. [Reposted…

CEOs from the country’s largest and most important steel companies along with an executive from the nation’s top industrial union were on Capitol Hill on March 26 and used the opportunity to raise alarms about surging steel imports. They told members of the Congressional Steel Caucus that their industry was in a state of crisis…