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'FART' Bill Indicates Trump's Intention to Dump WTO

posted by martyb on Tuesday July 03 2018, @06:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the He-Who-Smelt-It dept.

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The Trump administration has crafted a draft bill — ordered by the president — that would declare America's abandonment of World Trade Organization rules, according to Axios. The bill essentially provides President Donald Trump — who has argued for a better position for the U.S. in big trade pacts — a license to raise U.S. tariffs at will, without congressional consent and largely outside of the international rules governed by the WTO. The bill, titled the "United States Fair and Reciprocal Tariff Act," would give Trump unilateral power to ignore the two most basic principles of the WTO and negotiate one-on-one with any country.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 05 2018, @07:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 05 2018, @07:12AM (#702892)

    > You can just immigrate to Canada very easily, the USA will not stop you from leaving.

    LOL! The USA isn't stopping anyone from becoming citizens of other countries. But the Canadian permanent resident process, and the Canadian citizenship process, sure do turn down USA citizens just like they turn down Pakistanis. Oh, you're highly educated, financially well off, and have family in Canada? Well then again it doesn't matter where you're from, you'll have a relatively easy time becoming a PR and then a citizen.

    But to say "oh just leave for Canada, it's easy" is a lie. It's not easy to get a permanent residence in Canada at all, or there would be far far more Canadians and far far fewer global refugees. Even a Canadian work permit is a royal pain outside of a youth work-travel program and some industries with allowances.

    Your dismissal, which I've heard before, really bothers me. "Just leave for somewhere better if here is shitty" presupposes there's someplace both better and willing to take people. Not true, in general.