“Exports of chocolate to Europe have turned into a nightmare of paperwork and delays, making fine British chocolate scarce in Europe,” The New York Times reports.
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Trade war starts changing manufacturers in hard-to-reverse ways
If the electronics industry sneezes, few places will catch a cold as quickly as Portland, Oregon.
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Canada demands U.S. end ‘fire at will’ laws as part of NAFTA talks
“Canadian negotiators are demanding the United States roll back so-called ‘right to work’ [fire at will] laws – accused of gutting unions in some U.S. states by starving them of money – as part of the renegotiation of the North American free-trade agreement. The request is part of a push by Ottawa to get the U.S. and Mexico to adopt higher labour standards under the deal,” The Globe and Mail reports.
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Heroin, Nazis, and Agent Orange: Inside the $66 billion proposed merger between Bayer and Monsanto
“These companies used to sell heroin and Agent Orange. Now, they want to form the world’s largest supplier of seeds and pesticides,” reports Bloomberg’s Lydia Mulvany. Yuck! NPI fiercely opposes this merger and will ask the governments of the United States and Europe to block it.
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TPP is becoming a tough sell in Australia, too
Opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership is mounting in Australia, where critics have a stronger hand after Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s party lost seats in recent parliamentary elections.
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Rock Against the TPP is coming to the Pacific Northwest! RSVP now
Are you ready to help defeat the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Join progressive activists and socially conscious musicians for a free concert and rally against the disastrous
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The TPP is ‘disastrous for working families’ and central to the 2016 campaign
“The popular fury over trade policies that have devastated American communities is rarely taken seriously by the political and media elites that keep trying to narrow the national political discourse into an endless loop of empty discussions about personalities and tactics. But trade is a huge issue on the ground in states where Americans actually vote,” writes The Nation’s John Nichols.
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Federal Way votes to oppose Chinese-backed methanol plant in Tacoma
“Opposition against a proposed natural gas-to-methanol plant in Tacoma grew Thursday night with a unanimous vote against the project by the Federal Way City Council.” KING5 reports.
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Countries sign the TPP… Whatever happened to the ‘debate’ we were promised before signing?
TechDirect’s Mike Masnick reacts to the news that the twelve nations involved in the gargantuan Trans-Pacific Partnership have “signed” the pact. The TPP has been called a trade deal, but most of the TPP’s provisions actually have more to do with creating rules favorable to multinational corporations that could trump national laws intended to protect important things like individual privacy and manufacturing jobs than lowering barriers to trade.
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Trans-Pacific Partnership is a wonderful idea – for China
The United States, which sees itself as the champion of entrepreneurship, has devised a deal that seems designed to make it harder for new high-tech
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The clock is ticking on a time bomb that could blow up a free Internet: the TPP
The clock is ticking on a time bomb that could blow up a free Internet: the TPP “The agreement poses a grave threat to our
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Canada’s technology sector a big loser in final TPP deal, BlackBerry cofounder says
Canada’s technology sector a big loser in final TPP deal, BlackBerry cofounder says The Globe and Mail talks to former BlackBerry co-CEO Jim Balsillie, Tamir
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Hillary Clinton says she doesn’t support Trans-Pacific Partnership
PBS reports: “Just days after the U.S. and eleven nations released a monumental trade deal that still faces a fight in Congress, Hillary Clinton says she would not support the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Speaking with Judy Woodruff Wednesday, the Democratic presidential candidate said that as of today, given what she knows of the deal, it does not meet her bar for creating jobs, raising wages for Americans and advancing national security.” Click the video above to see the interview.
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Ten questions about the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Ten questions about the Trans-Pacific Partnership “The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the largest trade agreement in history. But what’s really inside it? The devil, and perhaps
LaunchMajor business group stops fundraising for Republicans due to Ex-Im Bank charter expiration
Major business group stops fundraising for Republicans due to Ex-Im Bank charter expiration Republicans are starting to suffer some political repercussions from the business community
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Putin vs. Parmesan
Fooling his people may buy Mr. Putin time, and Russians are famously capable of sacrifice. But time and sacrifice will be useful only if Mr.
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Stalled TPP negotiations catch Canadian conservatives off guard
Stalled TPP negotiations catch Canadian conservatives off guard The Globe and Mail reports on the stalled Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations from a Canadian perspective.
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Doggett assails “no-compromise, no-amendment attitude on trade”
What really needs adjusting here today is the no-compromise, no-amendment attitude on trade… This vote wouldn’t be so close if this process hadn’t been so
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Why Obama is wrong and Warren is correct on fast-track, TPP
Why Obama is wrong and Warren is correct on fast-track, TPP Massachusetts’ Elizabeth Warren has warned fellow Democrats that a bill to fast-track the Trans-Pacific Partnership
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Elizabeth Warren fires back at Obama on fast-track: Here’s what they’re really fighting about
If the president is so confident it’s a good deal, he should declassify the text and let people see it before asking Congress to tie
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DFA’s Charles Chamberlain: White House promises on TPP as empty as Nike’s commitment to American jobs
The only thing weaker than sweatshop-king Nike’s empty promises is the White House’s willingness to hype them as a victory in its push for a
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