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Lithos

(26,403 posts) Tue Jan 24, 2017, 08:14 PM Jan 2017

Let me get this straight - NAFTA and the Pipelines

Trump is wanting to build a huge pipeline to move Canadian Oil Tar Sands down to the Gulf Coast for processing....

Yet, he wants to renegotiate NAFTA to destroy the trade agreement with Canada that makes this possible...

Hmm...

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Let me get this straight - NAFTA and the Pipelines (Original Post) Lithos Jan 2017 OP

nafta he wants to renegotiate but tpp he just wants to abandon. unblock Jan 2017 #1

My guess Lithos Jan 2017 #2

The entire concept behind TPP is/was flawed. Motown_Johnny Jan 2017 #3

unblock

(52,208 posts)

1. nafta he wants to renegotiate but tpp he just wants to abandon.

Reply to Lithos (Original post)

Tue Jan 24, 2017, 08:30 PM

Jan 2017

why not renegotiate tpp?

Lithos

(26,403 posts)

2. My guess

Reply to unblock (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 24, 2017, 08:31 PM

Jan 2017

TPP will never include provisions to allow the currency extensions he wants included. He cares less about the rest of it.

NAFTA is going to be fun now the Canadians can spank his butt by using this as a negotiating tool. The pipelines are useless without oil going thru them and that requires Canadian permission.

L-

Motown_Johnny

(22,308 posts)

3. The entire concept behind TPP is/was flawed.

Reply to unblock (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 24, 2017, 08:35 PM

Jan 2017

It was always a way for America to expand it's influence in the Pacific rim. It was not ever really a trade deal in the conventional sense.

TPP should have been abandoned. It is just a shame that we gave the current President an easy win by leaving it out there. Progressives should have buried that thing 2 years ago.

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