The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Obama's Dangerous International Deal

Reason ^ | 16 November 2013 | Zenon Evans

[Lorianne]

free trade agreement that is neither about trade nor freedom. ___ While the Obama Administration appears to be growing ever-more-limp domestically, the president is still making a vigorous international push that has the potential to shift economic power dynamics, rewrite intellectual property laws, establish new labor and environmental regulations, and reduce the authority of Congress. And, the White House hopes to have all this sorted out by the end of this year.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), considered the “cornerstone of the Obama Administration’s economic policy in the Asia Pacific,” has been quietly negotiated since since the president's first term began. The U.S. Trade Representative Office (USTR) presents the agreement as a means for the United States and 11 other Pacific-rim countries to be the leaders of a technology-fueled future by trading with each other free of government tariffs. For all this, it has received a ringing endorsement from the New York Times.

[Texas Fossil]

Here is a clear explanation of how this process began and what need to be done to stop the use of Fast Track Trade Legislation.

http://www.exposethetpp.org/TPP_and_Fast_Track.pdf