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posted by on Tuesday November 22 2016, @09:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the we're-going-back-to-bartering dept.

Donald Trump says he will issue an executive action on his first day in office to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

In a video updating Americans on the White House transition, the President-elect described TPP as a "potential disaster for our country".

[...] Mr Trump said his administration instead intends to generate "fair, bilateral trade deals that bring jobs and industry back onto American shores".

Sky Correspondent Greg Milam said: "Donald Trump has been very critical of what trade deals have done for American workers and the damage that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) did in the 1990s - particularly to low-income workers in the Midwest, who it turns out voted for Mr Trump in huge numbers."

Source: Sky News


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday November 23 2016, @06:07AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 23 2016, @06:07AM (#431693) Journal

    No, it is you who is incapable of understanding a rational line of thought. Included above is the likelihood that the higher priced item is going to be produced by people within my own local economy. Higher prices, in a healthy economy, beats hell out of the low prices in an unhealthy economy.

    But, I don't expect most Americans to understand that today. In school, do they still teach the concept of "quality"? Do they teach anything at all about the economy?

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