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The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Deeply Flawed Partnership 環太平洋戦略的経済連携協定 (TPP)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2025
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The American people have become used to government trickery in foreign affairs—wars and interventions based on lies and falsified evidence, “national security” used to justify the whittling away of privacy, classification of documents to hide embarrassing disclosures, massaging of budget figures to mask outrageous spending on arms, and demands for new weapons when already in possession of an unmatched conventional and nuclear arsenal.
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1 These are Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam.
2 See here.
3 See here.
4 M. Angeles Villarreal and Ian F. Fergusson, “The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),” Congressional Research Service R42965, April 16, 2015, appendix A-4.
5 US exports to Canada and Mexico have risen annually, but US imports from these two countries have risen even more, creating a roughly $1 billion US trade deficit by 2011. See the Council on Foreign Relations, “NAFTA's Economic Impact,” February 14, 2014. On NAFTA's net US job displacements, see Robert E. Scott, “Heading South: US-Mexico Trade and Job Displacement After NAFTA,” Economic Policy Institute, May 3, 2011).
6 Dana Milbank, “The Trade-off Obama Missed on Trade,” Washington Post, April 24, 2015.
7 Senator Elizabeth Warren warns about this provision at “The Trans-Pacific Partnership Clause Everyone Should Oppose,” Washington Post, February 25, 2015. On the threat TPP poses to local food safety laws, see Mark Bittman, “Obama and the Republicans Agree on the Trans-Pacific Partnership … Unfortunately,” New York Times, April 22, 2015.
8 “Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)—IP Chapter”. The web site also contains the secret IPR documents.
9 According to The Oregonian, Nike employs about 26,000 people in the US, very few of whom are in manufacturing. The US operations primarily focus on value-added: marketing, design, and distribution.
10 Peter Baker, “Obama Scolds Democrats on Trade Pact Stance,” New York Times, May 8, 2015.
11 Alan Brettman, “Nike Says It Will Create 10,000 Jobs, Locate Manufacturing in U.S., With an Approved Trade Pact”, May 8, 2015.
12 See here.
13 Speech at Nike.
14 Thomas L. Friedman, “On Trade: Obama Right, Critics Wrong,” New York Times, April 29, 2015.
15 Christine Ahn, “Open Fire and Open Markets: The Asia-Pacific Pivot and Trans-Pacific Partnership,” Foreign Policy in Focus, January 17, 2014.
16 Ding Yifan (deputy director in the China Development Research Center), “The 'Catfish Effect” in the International Financial System,“ China-US Focus.com, May 8, 2015.
17 Curtis S. Chin, “China-Led AIIB Has the Opportunity to Prove Skeptics Wrong,” China-US Focus.com, April 24, 2015.
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