AMERICA’S BARGAINING POWER IN NEGOTIATING TRADE DEALS UNDERMINED WITHOUT TPA: PORK INDUSTRY EXPERTS
March 9th, 2015
AMERICA’S chances of promoting pigmeat exports by striking trade agreements under discussion such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) are slim, if President Barack Obama is not given authority to present deals to Congress for simple yes or no votes. So says the USA National Pork Producers Council (NPPC), which has released a statement stressing the value of US trade promotion authority (TPA), which sets the goals and priorities for any trade deal that the USA president is negotiating, but gives him ...
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