Reject CPTPP, Stay Out of New Cold War
Aiee, the TPP is back as the CPTPP. Same bad features but no US market access. What’s not to like?
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We Must Defeat the US Trade Deal
Why signing up to a US trade deal would mean a loss of sovereignity for the UK.
Read more...The TPP Is Dead! Long Live the TPP!
Beware! The TPP is still skulking around, rebranded as the CPTPP. As Lambert says, “Kill it with fire”.
Read more...Rethinking Free Trade Agreements in Uncertain Times
Jomo Kwame Sundaram makes the case against the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free trade agreement that went into effect at the end of 2018, for six of its eleven member countries.
Read more...Why Trump Is So Clumsy About Fighting ‘Free Trade’
Why what looks like a trade problem is really a financialization problem, and therefore there are much better solutions than using tariffs.
Read more...European Court of Justice Nixes “Investor-State Dispute Settlement” Intra EU, Raising Doubts About Its Future
Is it the beginning of the end for “Investor-State Dispute Settlement” clauses that have undermined democracies, and specifically, labor and environmental protection?
Read more...Sleeping Monster: The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) and Labor
TiSA’s effect on professional service and contract labor.
Read more...Sleeping Monster: The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), Scheduling, and “Standstill” and “Ratchet” Clauses
How TiSA could prevent the delivery of possible universal concrete material benefits, like Medicare for All
Read more...Sleeping Monster: The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) and Its Expansive Definition of “Services”
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. In this post, I continue what is starting to feel to me like a Lewis and Clark expedition through the unexplored territory of “trade” “deals”[1], having engaged New Zealand activist Jane Kelsey, who authored the new report TiSA: Foul Play (PDF) as my guide. Because I’m feeling my way into […]
Read more...Sleeping Monster: The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) and the Supply Chain
The extraordinary ambitions of TiSA (the Trade in Services Agreement)
Read more...The Slogan ‘Globalization Equals Growth’ Is Wrong
Looking at different types of globalization helps explain why it isn’t necessarily beneficial.
Read more...UN Panel Strives to Improve Access to Medicines: TRNN Interview with Celso Amorim
TRNN interview with Celso Amorim on which priorities should prevail when intellectual property protection collides with public health.
Read more...Lessons From the Demise of the TPP
Yves here. This post makes a point at the end in passing about the value of multilateralism, even though the TPP was otherwise a very bad scheme on multiple levels. This serves as a reminder to mention something I’ve neglected to say. Trump’s plan to enter into bi-lateral trade deals (after supposedly tearing up extant […]
Read more...Economists and Trump: Straight Talk on Trade
Economists maintained a party line of never letting a bad word be said about more open trade even though they knew it would produce losers.
Read more...Trump Victory Kayoes TPP
Trump’s victory kills the TPP, along with the assumption that experts alone will negotiate future free-trade agreements.
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