#trans pacific partnership

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Somebody make it make sense! 😖

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Brexit: 'A No Deal'; Is The Best Path For Labour Voters And The Country

Brexit: ‘A No Deal’; Is The Best Path For Labour Voters And The Country

British Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn talks to journalists after his meeting with European Union��s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco) Corbyn has been attacked for resisting a second referendum – but leaving on WTO terms will remove us from EU oversight once and for all

HUFF…

[allthecanadianpolitics]

At a time when the Trump administration is threatening to implement devastating auto tariffs, both the Conservatives and Liberals are championing a trade deal that would put 58 000 Canadian jobs at risk. Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer has asked to recall the House of Commons in order to ram through the TPP trade deal, which would decimate the industries already endangered by Trump’s outrageous tariffs.

“There couldn’t be a worse time to ram through the new TPP. Hearings in Washington on auto tariffs are starting today and auto communities are fighting to keep their jobs” said Tracey Ramsey, NDP Critic for International Trade. “Destroying one industry in hopes that another one will eventually grow is not diversification, it’s a death sentence for this sector.”

Global Affairs officials have admitted that the TPP would severely harm the auto and manufacturing sectors, and the sector is already projected to lose 1 in 5 jobs if Trump’s auto tariffs are implemented. Scheer’s request sends a signal to the manufacturing industry that both Conservatives and Liberals are prepared to abandon manufacturers and allow Canadian jobs to be shipped overseas.

“This weekend, I am headed to Windsor, one of the epicentres of this trade dispute and will hear from workers and businesses who are very worried about increased tariffs and unfair trade deals,” said NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh. “At every turn, the NDP will stand up for Canadian workers and against the job-killing TPP.”

[dailybrian]

Leftist ‘News’ Claims Litmus Test For Trump Support

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Leftist ‘News’ Claims Litmus Test For Trump Support

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Democrats Poll Better for Senate, Trump Rethinks TPP

Democrats poll better for Senate, Trump rethinks #TPP. American politics roundup

The United States Capitol dominates the skyline of Washington DC, November 22, 2013 (IIP/Tim Brown) The conventional wisdom in the United States is that Democrats are likely to take control of the House of Representatives in November while Republicans are likely to defend their majority in the Senate. That’s changing, FiveThirtyEight reports. Democrats are polling better in Arizona and Tennessee.…

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US position on TPP still unclear, NZ Govt says after Trump’s apparent U-turn Trade Minister David Parker says it still remains unclear whether the United States is truly committed to returning to the Trans Pacific Partnership. And if it does rejoin the Asia-Pacific trade agreement, the member countries – including New Zealand - would have to negotiate on how it would affe...

[lets-talk-about-politics]

Trump is considering pushing the United States to re-enter the Trans Pacific Partnership.

This is a departure from the campaign promises he made to fight back against free trade agreements, promises that were central to his campaign messaging. It’s also happening in the wake of Trump’s tariffs against China, which many say are useless as a blunt force to nudge China’s trade policies.

The Trans Pacific Partnership was originally designed during the Obama administration, and Obama wanted to use it to put pressure on China by influencing China’s trade partners in the Pacific region. Trump seems to be looking into rejoining the trade deal for exactly the same reason.

Ultimately, this highlights the incoherence of Trump’s policy against China. Instead of a cohesive strategy, Trump seems to be throwing ideas at the wall to see what sticks.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The implementing legislation for the Trans-Pacific Partnership was tabled today despite overwhelming evidence that this trade deal is a betrayal to Canadian workers, the manufacturing sector, and our supply management system. The CPTPP will put 58 000 Canadian jobs at risk and jeopardize both the auto industry and supply managed sectors. The NDP urges the Liberal government to put workers first during this difficult time and not accept this trade deal, which has a weak economic forecast according to the government’s own impact analysis.

“If this deal is implemented, tens of thousands of Canadian jobs will be at risk. When negotiating trade deals, the Liberals cannot sacrifice good paying jobs in the Canadian auto industry and farmers in supply managed sectors, such as dairy, poultry, and eggs,” said Tracey Ramsey, the NDP’s International Trade Critic.

Despite the “progressive” label in the name of the deal, the CPTPP has no gender chapter, weak labour provisions, no Indigenous consent, no environmental protections, and the weakest cultural language ever in a trade agreement. The deal also has low environmental standards, which will further prevent Canada from meeting our climate change commitments, and regressive investor-state dispute settlement provisions, which significantly undermine Canada’s sovereignty and its ability to regulate in the public interest.

“The Liberals negotiated the CPTPP behind closed doors. Piece by piece, Canadians have learned the extent of the problems with this deal. The NDP urges the Liberals to stand up for Canadian workers and refuse trade deals that will cost our country tens of thousands of jobs. Simply put, the CPTPP is a bad deal for Canada,” said Karine Trudel, NDP Deputy International Trade Critic.

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Mexico president says door open to U.S. rejoining TPP

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Mexico president says door open to U.S. rejoining TPP

LIMA (Reuters) – Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Friday that the door was open to the United States rejoining the Trans Pacific Partnership, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered his economic advisors to look at rejoining the sweeping trade deal. ...

[verycleverboy]

Routing around the damage

Here’s something I haven’t spotted anybody talking about on the US news channels, probably because it’s not necessarily about us anymore.

Canada has reached an agreement with 10 other countries on a revised Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a move that will likely strengthen Ottawa’s hand in its ongoing North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiations with Washington.

That is the observation of one Vancouver academic observer, who adds that the agreement may signal Canada’s shifting foreign strategy on leading a new kind of economic globalization as the Canadian economy becomes more reliant on international trade.[...]

The TPP was originally part of former U.S. president Barack Obama’s pivot-to-Asia strategy linking 12 countries (including two of the world’s three largest economies in Japan and the United States) to create an economic zone to advance global trade regulations and, in some views, to rival China’s meteoric rise as a global market force.

That deal was originally signed in early 2016 after up to eight years of negotiations, but it was scuttled by current U.S. President Donald Trump when he pulled the United States out of the deal. The remaining 11 countries decided a few months later to revive the TPP without U.S. involvement, an initiative dubbed TPP-11 to reflect its new membership numbers.

So the Trump administration decided to duck out of the TPP, and the other signatories decided to push forward without us. Maybe the Trump era is going to teach our allies and trading partners that getting things done is less of a hassle if they cut us out altogether. 

One possibility isn’t necessarily the possibility, don’t get me wrong. But just for this particular moment, imagine a NAFTA 2.0 with just Canada, Mexico and the world’s biggest fly-over state in between them. Imagine a US dollar that trades poorly against Canadian Tire money. And economically, imagine that we end up living inside a rapidly deflating balloon once we cut all those ties.

Art of the deal, baby.

(Possibly necessary disclaimer: Some Internet rando’s hyperbole should not be mistaken for investment advice. Ask your broker before converting your 401k into survival rations.)

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UK Eyes Pacific Free Trade Group Trade Minister Liam Fox says the UK wants to see how the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) evolves before considering joining it, in a bid to boost exports after Brexit.

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World Not Waiting for America: Pacific Nations Continue Trade Deal

The world isn't waiting for America: Pacific nations continue trade deal

Prime Ministers Shinzō Abe of Japan and Justin Trudeau of Canada speak in Washington DC, March 31, 2016 (Flickr/Justin Trudeau) In another sign that the world isn’t waiting for the United States, eleven countries in Asia and Latin America have announced their intention to keep the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) alive. One of Donald Trump’s first acts as president was to withdraw from the trade…

[allthecanadianpolitics]

In late January, all trade policy eyes were turned on the pivotal sixth round of NAFTA talks in Montreal. Half a world away in Japan, Canadian trade negotiators were closeted with the other ten remaining Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) countries in order to salvage that agreement.

In one of his first acts of office, President Donald Trump had pulled the U.S. out of the deeply unpopular TPP. It appeared to be a death blow to a treaty condemned across the U.S. political spectrum as entrenching corporate power at public expense.

The revived deal—embarrassingly renamed the Comprehensive and Progressive Trade-Pacific Partnership Agreement (CPTPP) at Canada’s request—was announced on the first anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal. This was widely seen as a rebuke to the Trump administration. But despite its Orwellian title, the CPTPP could also spell the demise of the Trudeau government’s much-hyped progressive trade agenda.

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Trans-Pacific Partnership: 11 trade ministers reach deal to keep deal alive

Trans-Pacific Partnership: 11 trade ministers reach deal to keep deal alive

Crisis talks among Trans Pacific Partnership ministers appear to have pulled the free trade pact back from the brink of collapse, although it still faces an uncertain future. Late on Friday Canada boycotted a meeting of leaders from the 11 nations involved, throwing the deal into disarray. But…