TO AMERICANS WHO OPPOSED THE TPP FROM THE LEFT: The 11 other countries are moving forward, but scrapped labor and environmental protections the US got them to include. Once again, you compared reality to imagined perfection rather than probable alternatives.
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Replying to @NGrossman81
Could you source this for me? Previous FT and WaPo coverage noted protections remained intact.https://www.ft.com/content/c5cdd3aa-c82d-11e7-ab18-7a9fb7d6163e …
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Replying to @patrick_lozada
I reacted to statements by Wendy Cutler, the former US deputy trade representative, and this report in Politico:https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/21/trump-nafta-trans-pacific-partnership-companies-trade-215851 …
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Replying to @NGrossman81 @patrick_lozada
David Parker (NZ Trade Minister, involved in negotiations) says environmental and labour standards are still part of CPTPP. https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2017/11/12/59799/the-fight-for-multilateral-trade … I'm not sure where Politico sourced their info, but seems likely they're just wrong.
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Seems like you should retract your original tweet.
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Replying to @rocallahan @patrick_lozada
A couple people have posted this, but I don't see a direct contradiction. Parker: "providing enforcement mechanisms to hold countries to account if they didn’t meet labour and environmental standards." Doesn't specify which standards. Nor that new TPP's are identical to old TPP.
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Replying to @NGrossman81 @patrick_lozada
Your tweet (and Politico) clearly suggest to readers that labour and environmental standards had been scrapped completely, not just tweaked or weakened.
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I didn't read the Politico article that way, and that's not my position. Zero labor or environmental standards would be ridiculous, and really easy to disprove.
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