TPP & International Trade Agreements

rickyb

Well-Known Member
http://www.citizen.org/TPP

The TPP would expand the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) "trade" pact model that has spurred massive U.S. trade deficits and job loss, downward pressure on wages, unprecedented levels of inequality and new floods of agricultural imports. The TPP not only replicates, but expands NAFTA's special protections for firms that offshore U.S. jobs. And U.S. TPP negotiators literally used the 2011 Korea FTA – under which exports have fallen and trade deficits have surged – as the template for the TPP.

In one fell swoop, this secretive deal could:

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from what i heard, under these so called "trade agreements", the corporations can sue governments for hundreds of millions when a government passes or is about to pass a regulation which may protect the environment, their citizens, etc, and the corporation think it will affect profits.

profits over people. all hail the king of money.
 

Babagounj

Strength through joy
It's a immigration scam .
http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...mmigration-chapter-in-obamas-trade-agreement/
Discovered inside the huge tranche of secretive Obamatrade documents released by Wikileaks are key details on how technically any Republican voting for Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) that would fast-track trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal would technically also be voting to massively expand President Obama’s executive authority when it comes to immigration matters.
 

realbrown1

Annoy a liberal today. Hit them with facts.
It's a immigration scam .
http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...mmigration-chapter-in-obamas-trade-agreement/
Discovered inside the huge tranche of secretive Obamatrade documents released by Wikileaks are key details on how technically any Republican voting for Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) that would fast-track trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal would technically also be voting to massively expand President Obama’s executive authority when it comes to immigration matters.
OG, Obama's lying again.

At this point, any Republican member of congress that accepts Obama's word for anything, needs to be tossed out of office.
 

rickyb

Well-Known Member
It's a immigration scam .
http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...mmigration-chapter-in-obamas-trade-agreement/
Discovered inside the huge tranche of secretive Obamatrade documents released by Wikileaks are key details on how technically any Republican voting for Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) that would fast-track trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal would technically also be voting to massively expand President Obama’s executive authority when it comes to immigration matters.

then why are republicans supporting it???
 

bottomups

Bad Moon Risen'
OG, Obama's lying again.

At this point, any Republican member of congress that accepts Obama's word for anything, needs to be tossed out of office.
The Executive Branch did not write this law. It was written and passed by your conservative Legislative Branch.
Who's lying now?
 

wkmac

Well-Known Member
Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement

During the 2002 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders' Meeting in Los Cabos, Mexico, Prime Ministers Helen Clark of New Zealand, Goh Chok Tong of Singapore and Chilean President Ricardo Lagos began negotiations on the Pacific Three Closer Economic Partnership (P3-CEP).[33] Brunei first took part as a full negotiating party in April 2005 before the fifth, and final round of talks.[34] Subsequently, the agreement was renamed to TPSEP (Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership agreement or Pacific-4). Negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPSEP or P4) were concluded by Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore on 3 June 2005,[2] and entered into force on 28 May 2006 for New Zealand and Singapore, 12 July 2006 for Brunei, and 8 November 2006 for Chile.[35]

The original TPSEP agreement contains an accession clause and affirms the members' "commitment to encourage the accession to this Agreement by other economies".[34][36] It is a comprehensive agreement, affecting trade in goods, rules of origin, trade remedies, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers to trade, trade in services, intellectual property, government procurement and competition policy. Among other things, it called for reduction by 90 percent of all tariffs between member countries by 1 January 2006, and reduction of all trade tariffs to zero by the year 2015.[37]

Although original and negotiating parties are members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the TPSEP (and the TPP it grew into) are not APEC initiatives. However, the TPP is considered to be a pathfinder for the proposed Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP), an APEC initiative.

Trans-Pacific Partnership

In January 2008, the US agreed to enter into talks with the Pacific 4 (P4) members regarding trade liberalisation in financial services.[38] On 22 September 2008, under president George W Bush, US Trade Representative Susan C. Schwab announced that the US would be the first country to begin negotiations with the P4 countries to join the TPP, with the first round of talks in early 2009.[39][40]

In November 2008, Australia, Vietnam, and Peru announced that they would join the P4 trade bloc.[41][42] In October 2010, Malaysia announced that it had also joined the TPP negotiations.[43][44][45]

After the inauguration of Barack Obama in January 2009, the anticipated March 2009 negotiations were postponed. However, in his first trip to Asia in November 2009, President Obama reaffirmed the United States' commitment to the TPP, and on December 14, 2009, new US Trade Representative Ron Kirk notified Congress that President Obama planned to enter TPP negotiations "with the objective of shaping a high-standard, broad-based regional pact".[46]

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To understand TPP and its history, one also has to understand the whole concept of Fast Track and how this has all played out.
 

realbrown1

Annoy a liberal today. Hit them with facts.
Is TPP becoming a game changing moment for some?

The first step is to understand you do have a problem and then seeing it for what it really is!
It seems like it's a game for you.

And you are enjoying every moment of this.

It's one of those times were you are correct.

Sort of like a broken watch, right only twice eveyday.

Both parties have members selling out America and the American working man.
 

wkmac

Well-Known Member
It seems like it's a game for you.

Because it is.

And you are enjoying every moment of this.

Absolutely. Always do because in the end I'm ultimately winning.

It's one of those times were you are correct.

One of many actually but please, by all means continue.

Sort of like a broken watch, right only twice eveyday.

Whatever works for ya and makes you feel special. Little tidbit about time. Time is the slave owner's task master.

Both parties have members selling out America and the American working man.

So then what and how are you choosing outside that construct?
 

wkmac

Well-Known Member
While we debate the importance of a piece of cloth on a stick.....in other news where people aren't looking.

When the mass of people are captured by a single debate which is mostly emotion, start looking around. Roaches like to scurry under the cover of darkness and seems they have been busy.

Trade Accord, Once Blocked, Nears Passage
 
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