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Secret TPP Text Unveiled: It’s Worse than We Thought

The TPP lowers U.S. tariffs to zero, giving our competitors unfettered access to the U.S. market while some other countries are allowed dramatically longer periods of time to open their markets. 

The ability of other countries, like Vietnam, to maintain their tariffs for significant periods of time will provide further incentives for U.S. companies to outsource production and offshore jobs and use Vietnam as an export platform to send their products back to the U.S. A good example of this is our experience with China where more than 45% of the products produced by foreign-invested enterprises are exported to the U.S. rather than sold to Chinese consumers. 

According to an initial analysis published in the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. market access concessions alone will increase the U.S. trade deficit in manufactured goods and autos and auto parts by more than $55 billion dollars resulting in the loss of more than 330,000 jobs. 

Tariffs are not the only impediment to U.S. exports to TPP countries. The TPP countries with whom the U.S. does not have existing free trade agreements with have utilized various market access impediments as well as maintain state-owned enterprises and non-market economic policies (Vietnam) to ensure the success of their companies. The TPP will do little to ensure that access for U.S. exports will increase to offset the flood of imports that are anticipated. 

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1 posted on 05/08/2016 8:31:19 AM PDT by gg188
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To: gg188

I’m sure Rush Limbaugh, the pro American mayor of Realville, will be all over this on Monday. /sarcasm


2 posted on 05/08/2016 8:34:11 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: gg188

TPP - What idiot thought

“Hey I got a great idea” “Let’s make the whole world a 3rd world country”


3 posted on 05/08/2016 8:39:29 AM PDT by mouse1
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To: gg188

Thank you Ted Cruz for enabling this stinking Obamatrade mess with your campaign to pass TPA. How principled and conservative of you.


4 posted on 05/08/2016 8:46:25 AM PDT by lodi90 (Clear choice for Conservatives now: TRUMP or lose)
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To: gg188

And then new one....something about integrating the EEC into it all.


6 posted on 05/08/2016 8:54:55 AM PDT by spokeshave (Somewhere there is a ceiling for Trump.....Yeah, it's called The Oval Office)
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To: gg188

The true architects of TPP...

M A K E T H I S G O V I R A L
The Money Masters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbEu-OLMKLQ

Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America
http://www.amazon.com/Predator-Nation-Corporate-Criminals-Corruption-ebook/dp/B005DXOQMC

Debt Slavery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKwO1onXAaI&list=RDbKwO1onXAaI#t=127
M A K E T H I S G O V I R A L


11 posted on 05/08/2016 9:02:27 AM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui (Smarter - Faster)
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To: gg188

Trump is on the right side of this - the other guy stepped in it when he helped enable the TPP.....


16 posted on 05/08/2016 9:37:57 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: gg188

I knew that was what they were waiting for.


26 posted on 05/08/2016 10:43:09 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: gg188
 
 
Ryan, Ryan, he's the man! If he can't do it, nobody can!
 
 

27 posted on 05/08/2016 11:15:36 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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