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Showing Original Post only (View all)US farmers 'helpless' as TPP boosts Australia [View all]
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/us-farmers-helpless-as-tpp-boosts-austUS farmers are upset that Australia and Canada will soon get a leg up on them under the TPP trade pact, with reduced tariffs selling wheat to Japan.
American farmers are facing the "imminent collapse" of key markets and fear uneven trade playing fields as Australian, Canadian and other rival nations take advantage of the soon-to-be implemented Trans-Pacific Partnership.
After President Donald Trump withdrew the US from the TPP on just his third day in the White House in 2017, the States will be left on the sidelines when the re-shaped TPP-11 comes into effect 12am on Sunday AEDT.
Australia, Canada, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand and Singapore were the first nations to ratify the agreement, formally titled the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement. Vietnam, Chile, Brunei, Peru and Malaysia are set to follow in coming months
US farmers, already hit hard by Trump's tariff battle with China and the lack of a free trade agreement with Japan, are bracing to immediately lose market share.
American wheat and beef producers have been particularly vocal.
American farmers are facing the "imminent collapse" of key markets and fear uneven trade playing fields as Australian, Canadian and other rival nations take advantage of the soon-to-be implemented Trans-Pacific Partnership.
After President Donald Trump withdrew the US from the TPP on just his third day in the White House in 2017, the States will be left on the sidelines when the re-shaped TPP-11 comes into effect 12am on Sunday AEDT.
Australia, Canada, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand and Singapore were the first nations to ratify the agreement, formally titled the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement. Vietnam, Chile, Brunei, Peru and Malaysia are set to follow in coming months
US farmers, already hit hard by Trump's tariff battle with China and the lack of a free trade agreement with Japan, are bracing to immediately lose market share.
American wheat and beef producers have been particularly vocal.
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Another one of trump's stupid moves. By 2020 trump moves will have defeated himself...
brush
Dec 2018
#9
yes, there's only two choices: either Dumbo is phenomenally dangerously stupid and should be impeach
CharleyDog
Dec 2018
#23
That's for sure - I remember when just about every DU OP was against the TPP
airplaneman
Dec 2018
#53
I think it was a very bad agreement as it was written then, and do not support it now.
Celerity
Dec 2018
#137
certain provisions where potentially noxious concerning national environmental regs.
paleotn
Dec 2018
#17
Well, those opposed helped defeat Clinton. So where do those "provisions" put us now with trump?
Hoyt
Dec 2018
#19
yes, this will hit us hard, and will never be recovered and could worsen if China wants it to:
CharleyDog
Dec 2018
#25
and? Who are US farmers again generally? We should make trade deals...we just shouldn't make shitty
JCanete
Dec 2018
#138
The TPP didn't do that, being the same as every agreement we and other countries signed since 1959
Hoyt
Dec 2018
#139
I like how it was a diabolical secret and yet they know it's a corporate give-away.
betsuni
Dec 2018
#102
TPP was just another big corporate welfare program, would have just hurt the working class. nt
elmac
Dec 2018
#37
Those provisions also let AFL-CIO sue countries that stop unionization efforts
Recursion
Dec 2018
#133
The solution was to negotiate a fairer provision, not abandon the whole process.
SunSeeker
Dec 2018
#99
And just like with the Affordable Care Act, the Public Option was never offered.
MarcA
Dec 2018
#105
WTO rules require agreements like TPP to have acceptable dispute mechanisms. In any event, do you
Hoyt
Dec 2018
#70
Same dispute mechanism we and other countries have used since 1959. You didn't answer my question.
Hoyt
Dec 2018
#89
I remember how much Trump bashed Hillary for supporting the goals of the TPP.
SunSeeker
Dec 2018
#40
I get it. The opposition, particularly the Jackpine Radical folks, were brutal even if they had no
Hoyt
Dec 2018
#74
It really is amazing. We've gone from bashing Obama and perhaps costing Clinton the election, to
Hoyt
Dec 2018
#73
Big secret, we knew everything in it, not to mention it was like just about every other
Hoyt
Dec 2018
#75
You would know about that. -- Lori Wallach, the director of Global Trade Watch, made numerous
lutherj
Jan 2019
#144
The TPP was happening with or without us, and Obama tried to seize the opportunity to make sure we..
Cha
Dec 2018
#121