Eyes on Trade

Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch blog on globalization and trade

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Aug. 20 - Blog: Huffington Post: Does the U.S. Trade Rep. Secretly Love Higher Tariffs?
Aug. 9 - Report: Investment Rules in Trade Agreements: Top 10 Changes to Build a Pro-Labor, Pro-Community, and Pro-Environment Trans-Pacific Partnership
Aug. 5 - Map: Under the Korea FTA, These Multinational Corporations Could Challenge U.S. and Korean Law
Aug. 4 - Blog: Huffington Post: Tribunal OKs Mining Corp's CAFTA Attack on Green Policy: Did Team Obama Really Need More Reasons to Renegotiate Bush's NAFTA-Style Trade Deals? 
Aug. 3 - Press Release: Pac Rim CAFTA Challenge of Salvadoran Environmental, Mining Safety Policies Given Go-Ahead by Tribunal
Jul. 30 - Blog: Huffington Post: Turn Away from the Cliff on Trade, State Legislators Group Tells Obama
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Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Negotiations

The Obama Administration has begun talks with Asian and Latin American nations to enter into the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The talks with Australia, Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam were originally initiated by the Bush Administration. As the first trade agreement negotiations entered into by the Obama administration, the TPP is the critical venue in which the administration can formally create and then implement a new U.S. trade agreement model to replace the failed Bush-NAFTA model. The process by which President Obama approaches the TPP will determine whether the administration will follow through with his commitments to new transparency and inclusiveness in U.S. trade policymaking.

For more coverage on the TPP and other free trade agreements, check out our blog, Eyes on Trade.



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