ENGL 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: September 11 Attacks, Global Terrorism Index, Due Process
28 Feb 2017
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U. s. leaving the trans-pacific partnership by michael corkery and apostolos chorozoglou. Tpp is a 12 nation free trade agreement. Trump removed u. s. from tpp: claimed better deals were coming. Tpp contains 29 chapters, 24 which are restrictions: drafted to challenge china. Free trade agreements cost jobs: economists feel we should fix the deals we have. Relations with china are still rocky and need communication: tru(cid:373)p does(cid:374)"t (cid:271)a(cid:272)k do(cid:449)(cid:374) fro(cid:373) asia(cid:374) tradi(cid:374)g. Tpp is a corporate wish list where companies get to share profits with shareholders and go(cid:448)er(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t gets ta(cid:454)es. Yet the (cid:449)orkers do(cid:374)"t get their fair share. Tpp protections enable companies to challenge inspections and under cut food regulations: outsourcing labor jobs in the corporate power grab. Tariffs would be eliminated at large: over 18000 taxes. More incentives for investment: new protections for u. s. investors abroad. Asia is the (cid:449)orld"s fastest gro(cid:449)i(cid:374)g regio(cid:374).
