Trans Pacific Partnership

Zach Carter

Obama Administration Says 'No' To Global Health Fund For Developing Nations

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Tpp, Poverty, Economy, Drug Companies, Tb, Hiv, Free Trade, Jobs, Obama, Bernie Sanders, Who, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Tuberculosis, Pharma, World Health Assembly, Pharmaceutical Companies, Politics, Doctors Without Borders, Video, Wha, World Health Organization, Geneva, Phrma, Trade, Aids, Msf, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has alarmed global health experts by opposing a new international fund that would fight disease in the developi...

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Zach Carter

Trade Revolt Against Obama Intensifies

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Tpp, Ron Wyden, 2012 Elections, Wyden, Economy, Darrell Issa, Jobs, Free Trade, Obama, Buy America, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Barack Obama, Buy American, 2012, Issa, Video, Sen. Ron Wyden, Trans-Pacific, Trade, Prescription Drugs, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced legislation late Wednesday to protest the Obama administration's refusal to share information about c...

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Secrets Revealed: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement

Ilana Solomon | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Free Trade, Environmental Protection, Trans-Pacific Partnership Tpp, Trans Pacific Partnership, Trade Environment, Trade Environment Tpp, Green News
Ilana Solomon

The Sierra Club is deeply concerned about the environmental implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, many parts of which could directly undermine efforts to strengthen environmental protection while also putting the U.S. economy and workers at risk.

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Zach Carter

An Idea To Fix Killer Costs Of Lifesaving Drugs

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Tpp, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Darrell Issa, Hiv, Free Trade, Stiglitz, Obama, Bernie Sanders, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Barack Obama, Issa, Doctors Without Borders, Video, Ustr, Trade, Prescription Drugs, Health Care Reform, Aids, Health Care, Drug Prices, Medicine, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is promoting a new plan to encourage the development of better, cheaper prescription drugs: an innovation fu...

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Zach Carter

Issa Leaks Secret Document To Pressure Obama On Trade Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Big Pharma, Tpp, Ip, Acta, Economy, Darrell Issa, Manufacturing, Free Trade, Jobs, Buy America, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Barack Obama, Buy American, Sopa, Stop Online Piracy Act, Intellectual Property, Video, Trade, Trans-Pacific, Patents, Patent Reform, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has taken the unprecedented step of leaking a secret U.S. trade document, in ...

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What Are They Trying to Hide?

Michael Brune | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Environment, Oil, Free Trade Agreements, World Trade Organization, Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Obama Trade, Green News
Michael Brune

Odds are that you haven't heard of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. And even if you've heard of it, I'm willing to bet you don't know what might be in it.

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Why Is the TPP Such a Big Secret?

Tim Robertson | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Outsourcing, Free Trade Agreements, Offshoring, Internet Freedom, Free Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Financial Regulation, Cispa, Politics News
Tim Robertson

The only way the corporate shopping list that is the TPP can get past public scrutiny is if no one ever hears about it. Fortunately, activists are fighting back.

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Zach Carter

Congress Revolts On Obama Plan That Would Ban 'Buy American'

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Tpp, 2012 Elections, Economy, Jobs, Obama, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Buy America, Business, Barack Obama, Buy American, 2012, Politics, Video, Ustr, Trans-Pacific, Trade, Environment, Trans Pacific Partnership, November Elections, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A group of 68 House Democrats and one Republican sent a letter to President Barack Obama on Thursday urging him to reconsider an element...

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Trade Deals: Backdoor Financial Deregulation

Lori Wallach | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Tpp, Wto, Volcker Rule, Financial Reform, Barack Obama, Politics News, Obama Free Trade Agreements, Obama Free Trade, World Trade Organization, Nafta, Banking, Banks, Bankers, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Wall Street, Business News
Lori Wallach

Wall Street has a new power tool to demolish financial stability policies, and it comes from a source many would not expect.

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Our Muddled China Policy

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Free Trade, Congress, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Trade Policy, Nafta, China Trade Policy, China Trade, Rare Earth Minerals, China, President Obama, Politics News
Robert Kuttner

This is supposed to be a period of bitter bipartisan deadlock, in which Republicans and Democrats can agree on nothing. But when it comes to trade deals that serve corporate but not the national interest, bipartisanship is all too alive and well.

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Getting Around Geithner

Sarah Anderson | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Free Trade Agreements, Timothy Geithner, Capital Controls, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Pacific Trade Agreement, Capital Controls Trade, Obama Trade Policy, Politics News
Sarah Anderson

In the wake of the worst financial crisis in 80 years, I thought it would be a no-brainer for the U.S. government to give up its longstanding policy of banning capital controls through trade agreements.

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Insourcing Infrastructure: A Local Transit Director's Plan to Bring Back Jobs

Tim Robertson | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Transparency, Tpp, Insourcing, Free Trade Agreements, Politics News, Politics, Infrastructure, Insourcing American Jobs, Bart, Jobs, Manufacturing, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Trans Pacific Partnership, China, Third Industrial Revolution, Politics News
Tim Robertson

"Many jobs these days require a B.A., a series of unpaid internships, and a graduate degree. Most young people cannot afford to put in that much time and take on that much debt. If we create another path with a shorter timeline, young people will be more likely to stay in school."

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The State of the Union: More United Than Reported

Dean Garfield | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Innovation, High Tech Jobs, High Tech Industry, Tech Jobs Economy, High Tech Growth, Free Trade, Business News, Trans Pacific Partnership, Tax Reform, China, Tech Industry Jobs, Immigration Policy, State of the Union, Technology News
Dean Garfield

We want to continue as the world's dominant economic and innovating power, maintaining the level of prosperity we have enjoyed for the past 30 years. Together we can attain these goals if we focus on solutions instead of launching salvos against each other for the sake of politics.

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Gerry Smith

ACTA Sparks Protests In Latest Anti-Piracy Battle

HuffingtonPost.com | Gerry Smith | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Copyright Treaty, Protect Ip Act, Anti-Piracy, Video, Stop Piracy Online Act, Copyright, Acta, Poland, Pipa, Electronic Frontier Foundation, European Union, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, Internet Protest, Sopa, Technology News

In the United States, a massive Internet protest last week led by Wikipedia and Google drove congressional leaders to place controversial anti-piracy ...

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Barack Obama at APEC: America Is Still Welcome

Richard Attias | Posted 01.25.2012

Read More: Free Trade, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Apec, Euro Crisis, Barack Obama, Business News
Richard Attias

Although his remarks at the recent APEC CEO conference in Hawaii earlier this month were mostly serious, US President Barack Obama opened with a joke. "This is my birthplace, I know that was contested for a while," he said. "I can show you the hospital if you'd like."

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Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership Disaster

Ian Fletcher | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Free Trade, Mercantilism, Obama, Tpp, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Trade Agreements, China, Video, Politics News
Ian Fletcher

After the failed promises of NAFTA, a job-destroying trade deficit that has burgeoned despite a long series of free-trade agreements, and ever-more-aggressive foreign mercantilism, we're plowing ahead with even more of these agreements.

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Obama Gives CEOs Green Light to Invest in Red China

Curtis Ellis | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Tpp, Ows, Outsourcing, Apec, Wall Street, Economy, Jobs, Trans-Pacific Partnership, China, Obama China Manufacturing, Hu Jintao US Economy, China Manufacturing, Business News
Curtis Ellis

If Obama actually believes China will be buying stuff from America, he didn't hear what Hu Jintao himself told the CEOs of Google, Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lily and Co. and Dow Chemical Asia Pacific.

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Leaders Announce Outline For Achieving Pacific Free Trade Bloc

AP | ELAINE KURTENBACH | Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Asia-Pacific Summit, Ron Kirk, Pacific Free Trade Bloc, Free Trade Pacific, Business News

HONOLULU — Moves toward a Pacific free trade zone gained momentum Saturday, though friction over the U.S.-backed initiative were apparent, with ...

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Zach Carter

Bill Daley Brings Big Pharma History To Trade Policy

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Tpp, HIV/AIDS, Thailand, William Daley, United States Trade Representative, Video, Access to Medicine, Ustr, Trade, Stanford McCoy, Revolving Door, Bill Daley, Obama, Kaletra, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Abbott Laboratories, Politics News

This piece is a continuation of The Huffington Post's collaboration on trade issues with The Dylan Ratigan Show, called Trading Our Future. WASHING...

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Shooting Itself In the Foot: The Broken Promises of the U.S. Trade Agenda

Tido von Schoen-Angerer | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: International Trade, HIV/AIDS, U.S. Trade Representative, Free Trade Agreements, Doctors Without Borders, Pharmaceutical Industry, HIV Medications, Developing Countries, Msf, Access-to-Medicines, Tpp, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Access to Medicines, World News
Tido von Schoen-Angerer

In the Chicago trade talks, the U.S. is trying to club up with countries in a deal that keeps the cost of medicines high.

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Labor Day Showdown: Can Advocates Stop 'NAFTA of the Pacific'?

Michelle Chen | Posted 11.05.2011

Read More: Free Trade Agreements, Global Economy, Free Trade, Globalization, Trans-Pacific Partnership, North American Free Trade Agreement, Nafta, Tpp, Politics News
Michelle Chen

The provisions of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are still under wraps, but the general outline seems to mimic NAFTA and similar pacts that have brought political and economic turmoil to rich and poor countries alike.

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Be Thankful It's British, not Canadian, Petroleum

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama NAFTA, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Bp, Nafta, Green News
Carl Pope

Under NAFTA the so-called "investor-protection clauses" would allow a Canadian or Mexican oil company that caused a gusher on the floor of the Gulf to appeal any change in the liability or responsibility it faces to a trade tribunal.

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Obama's Trade Opportunity

Rep. Linda Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Trade Policy, Fair Trade, Obama Trade, Nafta, President Barack Obama, Obama Trade Agreement, TRADE Act, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Tpp, Politics News
Rep. Linda Sanchez

The President has the opportunity to show the world that the U.S. is leading the charge when it comes to expanding trade fairly while guaranteeing well-being at home and abroad.

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President Obama Sounds Like a Free Trader, So Why Are His Actions Contradicting His Words?

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Colombia Free Trade, Ron Kirk, Free Trade, Gary Locke, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Protectionism, Buy American, Barack Obama, Gary Shapiro, Politics News
Gary Shapiro

Listening to President Barack Obama's speech Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress, I did a double take. "The only way to fully restore Amer...

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