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On November 13, 2013, a document containing a complete draft of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement's chapter on Intellectual Property Rights was leaked to the world through the WikiLeaks Web [...]

Two massive and dangerous 'trade' agreements, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) loom on the near horizon. Like icebergs of doom, they lie mostly [...]

IV. TOBACCO EXCEPTIONS IN THE TPPA A. WTO BASELINE As noted above, an exception strikes a balance. It enables a country to present an affirmative defense of a measure that [...]

I. LEGACY OF 20TH CENTURY TRADE POLICY With tobacco trade, the past is prologue. In the 1980s, the U.S. government used domestic trade remedies ("Super 301") to pry open markets [...]

I. INTRODUCTION Proponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPPA) describe it as a twenty-first century agreement that will reach further behind the border than any previous free trade or investment [...]

Byline: Kevin Maney If you want an ominous warning about the impact of the Trump era on Silicon Valley, look at a former American behemoth of innovation: Detroit. By 1908, [...]

There could be a new art to America's trade deals DONALD TRUMP claims to like free, fair and smart trade. It is precisely for that reason, he says, that he [...]

America's economy benefits hugely from trade. But its costs have been amplified by policy failures SO COMMON is anti-trade rhetoric in the election campaign that you might think America is [...]

TPP is intended to spark a boom in trade in services, but it will be decades in the making IT DID not take long for America's presidential candidates, busy though [...]

After five years of negotiations a deal was at last struck on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the biggest trade accord in years. TPP covers 12 countries in Asia and the Americas [...]

Harmonizing global auto standards and regulations is an elusive goal, but two pending trade pacts offer a window of opportunity. Both the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment [...]

A row over the Pacific trade deal is harming America's economic and political interests THE world economy is undergoing revolutionary changes, John F. Kennedy told Congress in 1962. If America [...]

The US exported $344 billion to the EU, and the EU exported $450 billion to the US in 2013, reports Spiegel Online. Policymakers expect the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership [...]

The United States is paralyzed by partisan divide, particularly over the Trans-Pacific Partnership that could boost trade with Asia. Meanwhile, China continues to build trade ties, including 'an unprecedented investment [...]

The very notion of global trade would suggest openness - and certainly a lack of secrets. But the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a new kind of agreement, one that pushes deep [...]

'I can't make the case that this is going to make a huge difference to many people.... It's going to make a small difference to virtually everybody.' That's what an [...]

Byline: Lucia Graves When I meet Chris Campbell in his modest office in Hart, the Senate Finance Committee is bracing itself for the biggest trade policy fight in decades--a showdown [...]

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, negotiated by 12 nations, could account for one third of all global trade. But so far, China is not included even though the country is a top [...]

President Barack Obama begins travels this week to Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines as the United States strives to convince Asian allies that a pivot to Asia is [...]