by Dave Johnson | Mar 3, 2014 | Trade
Today more than 40 organizations called on the U.S. Trade Representative to start an open, transparent, public consultation process allowing them to provide input on our country's trade-agreement negotiating process and the resulting trade deals. In particular these...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 27, 2014 | Trade
If you take the king’s shilling, says the old saying, then you do the king’s bidding. So what happens when you take 100 million of them? Here’s one possible answer: You negotiate trade deals like NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the new pact that...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 26, 2014 | China Currency Showdown, Trade
The United States could create up to 5.8 million new jobs, reduce our trade deficits by up to $500 billion per year by 2015 and increase U.S. gross domestic product by up to $720 billion per year if we act to end global currency manipulation. Simple as that....
by Dave Johnson | Feb 26, 2014 | Making it in America, Trade
Bloomberg News has a great report on the pressure to ban "Buy America" procurement policies in the trade agreements the United States is currently negotiating. Bloomberg focuses on an Oregon company making streetcars to show the damage that banning Buy America...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 24, 2014 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
A law affecting content on the Internet that was rejected by Congress shows up in a trade agreement designed to bypass and override Congress. Small, innovative companies that manufacture low-cost, generic drugs find their products blocked. Those are examples of what...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 14, 2014 | Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The big corporations and the Obama administration are trying to push through a giant new trade treaty that gives corporations even more power, and which will send even more jobs, factories, industries and money out of the country. This is the Trans-Pacific Partnership...
