How to Pass Disastrous Trade Agreements

How to Pass Disastrous Trade Agreements

To get passage of a trade deal that would devastate many American businesses and workers’ wages, merely allow the president to negotiate it without oversight by Congress — and then rush it through Congress on a “fast track,” without examination or debate. ...
William F. Jasper

“We need to work together on tools like bipartisan trade promotion authority.”
          — President Barack Obama, State of the Union Address, January 20, 2015

“The president made very clear last night that TPA [Trade Promotion Authority] and TPP is now a top presidential priority and now is the time to get it done.”
          — top White House aide Evan Medeiros, in remarks at the Brookings Institution, January 21, 2015

The big push is on. The “Obama­Trade Express” is taking off. With the help of Republicans as well as Democrats, Obama is bound and determined to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), both of which are officially termed “free trade agreements,” though they do not propose merely to set uniform low tariffs and allow trade to happen.

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