by Dave Johnson | Oct 15, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The U.S. Trade Representative's (USTR) Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement is shopping around to professors, trying to get them to help "expand the conversation" around the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with the public – even though TPP is...
by Leo Gerard | Oct 13, 2015 | Blog, Current Issues, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Some terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the 12-nation trade proposal completed last week, are so repulsive that the New Zealand trade minister who helped negotiate the scheme described accepting them as swallowing dead rats. Here’s what New Zealand Minister...
by Bill Scher | Oct 9, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
For Politico Magazine, I analyzed the recent shift in position by Hillary Clinton on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Here's an excerpt: While Hillary Clinton is probably lying about her newfound opposition to President Barack Obama’s trade deal, that doesn’t tell us...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 8, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Hillary Clinton gave a big boost to opponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership when, in an interview on the PBS NewsHour Wednesday, she voiced her opposition to the just-completed "trade" treaty. Clinton joins fellow Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 6, 2015 | Blog, Jobs and Growth, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday that the August goods and services trade deficit was an enormous, humongous $48.3 billion. This is a big 15.6% increase from July's enormous, humongous $41.8 (revised) billion trade deficit. Exports dropped 2 percent and imports...
by Dave Johnson | Oct 6, 2015 | Blog, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
Countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) say they have reached a deal. So here it comes. Monday morning it was announced that a "Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached," presented as much as a foreign policy success as a "trade" deal. "The...
