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“Only governments can open the avenues of free trade.”
Sens. Menendez and Rubio maintain countries' rankings were manipulated to ease TPP's path.
“So we’re running around, hearing people battle a dragon called trade, when in fact it’s not the fundamental problem.”
Climate envoy says countries are awaiting word from the Trump administration on its plans as some in Europe mull a carbon tax.
“American trade policy is mismanaged by dozens of competing bureaucracies spread across so many departments.”
Enough members of Congress will ultimately support the Trans-Pacific Partnership in a post-election lame-duck session largely due to the negative geopolitical implications of failing to ratify the deal, according to Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Russel.
“You have countries with 50 percent youth unemployment, you need some kickers to the economy,” he said in Brussels.
Business groups that approached this week's U.S.-India Strategic and Commercial Dialogue with varying expectations are now offering dramatically different views on the progress made at the Aug. 30-31 meeting in New Delhi of high-level government officials from both countries.
The Obama administration has issued an executive order spelling out responsibilities and authority across federal departments and offices on addressing currency manipulation under the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, also known as the customs bill.
“I would never speculate on what a next administration may do, but to the extent that this has yielded these positive results, it would be difficult to go backwards,”