trade agreements

So, now that it is clear the US will soon be in a trade war with all of it's biggest traders, how do you think this will affect your country? The feeling I get in the Netherlands is a big "meh, we'll import that stuff from somewhere else and retaliate" so there is not that much worry about...

Trump's withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership has eliminated incentives for the Vietnamese government to improve social and political conditions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/world/how-a-trump-decision-on-trade-became-a-setback-for-democracy-in-vietnam/?noredirect=on...

I asked in another thread if the Democratic Party has actually been drifting to the right as many have alleged. Not really wanting a derail I figured we could discuss that here. Is the current Democratic Party to the right on its policy positions from the 80's/90's? Personally I think they...

Trump Is China’s Chump But the TPP would have been a disaster for the US! Why is Trump being being castigated for getting rid of this abomination?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38721056 Sad, very sad.

Did anyone hear Trump announcing that NAFTA was going to be renegotiated? He pronounced it NAFFFFFTA. "You've heard of NAFFFFFTA." Very weird. What is he going to do if Mexico says, "Nah, we're good."? He can't repeal the treaty. Would the Senate actually do so?

Brexit is one sign, maybe. In the USA, both major candidates are against the TPP multilateral trade deal. One is really against it, the other I think put her finger in the wind and decided that it just would not be the popular position to take in the current political climate to be for it, so...

I guess this is an issue that divides Democrats. Obama is for it, but Elizabeth Warren is against it (more broadly, businesses seem to mainly be for it, with some exceptions, while labor and environmental groups are against it). Me, I'm generally in favor of freer trade and lower barriers to...

I've heard several things about the TPP. It supposedly corrodes internet freedoms, enables large businesses to wage legal battles against countries that refuse to sale their products, and strips a number of "critical rights". I say "critical rights", but I haven't found very much on the TPP yet...