President Obama’s government has just concluded five days of non-stop marathon talks with the other eleven Pacific Rim countries eventually ending in a free trade agreement. Unionists in the AFL-CIO are skeptical over how serious the countries will actually be in applying the ILO rules that they have committed to respecting in signing this agreement. Similarly they are worried for the future of US workers in the auto industry, textiles, and in the agro-food industry.
In Atlanta, American negotiators have just concluded eight years of negotiations that have resulted in a free-trade agreement with the other eleven Pacific-rim* countries covering about 40% of the global economy. For President Barack Obama this Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is an historic agreement and will in no small part define Presidency. This agreement will allow the US and its TPP partners to both counteract the influence China wields and establish a trade framework in the Pacific...
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