Showing posts with label Trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trade. Show all posts

Monday, August 27, 2018

STOCKS SMASH RECORDS ON NEW NAFTA

















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Friday, June 15, 2018

"(T)hese aren’t tariffs they are a #TheftTax"



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Thursday, April 12, 2018

Trump directs top economic advisers to look at re-entering Trans-Pacific Partnership



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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Trump unveils "great" first trade deal with South Korea

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Friday, March 2, 2018

IF YOU DON’T HAVE STEEL, YOU DON’T HAVE A COUNTRY!





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Tuesday, December 19, 2017

The Trump Doctrine: American Interests Come First

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Monday, November 13, 2017

“We’ve made some very big steps, with respect to trade, far bigger than anything you know,” Trump said at mtg with Japan’s Abe and Australia’s Turnbull.





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Thursday, April 6, 2017

EAST MEETS WEST AT MAR-A-LAGO













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Thursday, January 26, 2017

SHOWDOWN: MEXICO























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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

The House Is Working Extra Days in 2017 to Push Through Trump's Agenda

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Wednesday, November 23, 2016

5 ways for the Trump White House to get tough on China trade without causing a trade war



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Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Trump Economic Speech In Monessen, PA




  • 1) Withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
  • 2) “Appoint the toughest and smartest trade negotiators to fight on behalf of American workers.”
  • 3) “Direct the Secretary of Commerce to identify every violation of trade agreements a foreign country is currently using to harm our workers. I will then direct all appropriate agencies to use every tool under American and international law to end these abuses.”
  • 4) “Tell our NAFTA partners that I intend to immediately renegotiate the terms of that agreement to get a better deal for our workers. And I don’t mean just a little bit better, I mean a lot better. If they do not agree to a renegotiation, then I will submit notice under Article 2205 of the NAFTA agreement that America intends to withdraw from the deal.”
  • 5) “I am going to instruct my Treasury Secretary to label China a currency manipulator. Any country that devalues their currency in order to take advantage of the United States will be met with sharply.”
  • 6) “I am going to instruct the U.S. Trade Representative to bring trade cases against China, both in this country and at the WTO. China’s unfair subsidy behavior is prohibited by the terms of its entrance to the WTO, and I intend to enforce those rules.”
  • 7) “If China does not stop its illegal activities, including its theft of American trade secrets, I will use every lawful presidential power to remedy trade disputes, including the application of tariffs consistent with Section 201 and 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 and Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.”

He also had quite a line about Hillary Clinton. Describing her candidacy and political career as being in service of American and global elites, he painted his own effort as being for the American working man. He cast the comparison in dire terms:

“That’s the choice we face. We can either give in to Hillary Clinton’s campaign of fear, or we can choose to Believe In America.”





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Friday, June 24, 2016

The overlooked substance in Donald Trump's speech



Most coverage of Donald Trump's speech in New York Wednesday has focused on his attacks on Hillary Clinton. Or the fact that he read the speech from a teleprompter. Or the fact that it came amid a period of disorder and change in his campaign.

But Trump included actual substance in the speech — new policy proposals and promises — that escaped many observers. In a series of pledges to take action in his first 100 days as president, Trump said he would move on trade, business regulation, energy, and several other topics.

One area in which Trump promised to take extensive and quick executive action is immigration, with a pledge to "change immigration rules to give unemployed Americans an opportunity to fill good-paying jobs."

What Trump meant is that there are parts of U.S. immigration policy — significant parts — that could be changed through executive action, or regulation, or simply enforcing existing law....
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Sunday, September 6, 2015

Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S.—and the West as a whole—has lost the diplomatic touch. These countries began to negotiate for symbolism, not substance. From the Kyoto Protocol to the U.N.’s human rights agreements, negotiation became about looking good, not doing good.



Like unhappy families, bad agreements are each bad in their own way. And of course there are degrees of badness: no trade deal, no matter how implausibly dreadful, could be worse than a nuclear deal gone wrong. But bad agreements do have a few features in common.

The major postwar agreements—from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to the North Atlantic Treaty that created NATO—stood the test of time because they were good deals that met real needs. They were serious, clear, and substantial, and they benefited everyone....

It might be that all of this is just a case of bad diplomacy producing bad agreements, of which there have been many since 1989. But note the final thing that these agreements have in common: they will tie the hands of the U.S. (and the U.K.) long after Obama has left office.
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Sunday, July 12, 2015

#DonaldTrump’s Illegal Immigration Rally The Hottest Ticket In Arizona



















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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Top Nine Myths About Trade Promotion Authority And The Trans-Pacific Partnership



The current debate over Trade Promotion Authority proves, once again, that the classic description of the anti-globalization movement—as “largely the well-intentioned but ill-informed being led around by the ill-intentioned and well informed”—still holds true. Despite the tireless efforts of trade policy experts to explain why TPA and the U.S. trade agreements it’s intended to facilitate are, while imperfect, not a secret corporatist plot to usurp the U.S. Constitution and install global government, myths and half-truths continue to infect traditional and social media outlets.

Because these myths—originating with the same old anti-trade bedfellows that have been with us for decades—have duped a lot of good folks who are otherwise predisposed to support liberty and free markets (including some in Congress), and because the House of Representatives is poised to vote on TPA in the coming days, here is one last debunking of the top nine myths about TPA, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and U.S. free-trade agreements (FTAs) more broadly.

◼ Myth 1: TPA and U.S. FTAs are unconstitutional and undemocratic!
◼ Myth 2: TPA grants the president new and unlimited powers!
◼ Myth 3: TPA sets legally binding congressional rules for U.S. trade negotiations!
◼ Myth 4: Once TPA is approved, Congress will be powerless to stop TPP or other FTAs!
◼ Myth 5: TPP is being negotiated via a dangerous and unprecedented level of secrecy!
◼ Myth 6: FTAs, completed via TPA, undermine U.S. sovereignty!
◼ Myth 7: TPP is a secret backdoor for a parade of horribles (and TPA lets that happen)!
◼ Myth 8: FTAs (and free trade generally) benefit large corporations at the expense of working people!
◼ Myth 9: TPA doesn’t matter!

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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

REPUBLICANS RUSH OBAMATRADE BEFORE PUBLIC READS IT





















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Obamatrade Support Falling Apart In House Despite Leadership Push

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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

OBAMA HIDES TRADE DEAL DETAILS...



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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

WikiLeaks announces $100K bounty for trade deal text

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