Trans-Pacific Partnership - Full Text

[yallerdawg]

Just like President Obama promised!

With revisions to NAFTA (Canada and Mexico are partners!) as promised!

So when the naysayers start to pump it out - already, in fact - we can reference exactly what they are speculating and suggesting from the actual text.

And remember - not even Donald Trump suggests in "The Art of the Deal" that everyone gets what they want - they just seek the best deal possible!

"My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward," he writes. "I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing to get what I'm after. Sometimes I settle for less than I sought, but in most cases I still end up with what I want."

I'd bet Obama read that book!

Link to text and much more: https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/trans-pacific-partnership/TPP-Full-Text

[SleeplessinSoCal]

1. any direct link to NAFTA?

"With revisions to NAFTA (Canada and Mexico are partners!) as promised!"

This would be helpful to have.

Also if anyone can refute claims that the TPP will enable auto industry to ship American jobs to Vietnam - of all places?

[yallerdawg]

2. HOW TPP UPGRADES NAFTA

Upgrading the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

As President Obama has made clear, past trade deals – including the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA – haven’t always lived up to the hype. That’s why he has called for renegotiating NAFTA to better address labor and environmental issues. Because TPP includes Canada and Mexico and improves substantially on NAFTA’s shortcomings, it delivers on that promise. TPP learns from past trade agreements, including NAFTA, by upgrading existing standards and setting new high standards that reflect today’s economic realities.

Two primary concerns related to NAFTA which were addressed as unenforceable side agreements at the time:

Adopting the highest environmental standards of any trade agreement, including fully enforceable obligations prohibiting some of the most harmful fishery subsidies, creating new tools to combat illegal wildlife trafficking, and improving enforcement of conservation laws.

Adopting the highest labor standards of any trade agreement, including fully-enforceable requirements to protect the freedom to form unions and bargain collectively, prohibitions against exploitative child labor and forced labor, protections against employment discrimination and requirements for acceptable conditions of work.

[Cha]

3. Thank you, yallerdawg!