Posted on 11/12/2016 6:06:00 PM PST by expat_panama
We’re about to find out.
During his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump made some very confrontational statements on trade. He called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) the “rape of our country.” He suggested renegotiating, or even withdrawing from, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). And he accused China and Mexico, among others, of “cheating” the U.S. in trade.
At the same time, some of his proposals merely reflect current U.S. trade policy. For example, he said he would “instruct the U.S. Trade Representative to bring trade cases against China, both in this country and at the WTO,” which is already a core part of what the U.S. Trade Representative has been doing for well over a decade.
This dichotomy raises an interesting question about Trump’s administration: Will his actual trade policies match his most aggressive campaign rhetoric?
The first place to look for clues will be the people he hires...
...He and his advisers have suggested that bilateral trade deals offer a better way forward, which raises two questions:
First, with whom would a Trump administration be negotiating these bilateral deals? There has been some talk about a deal with the U.K....
...Second, what would be in these bilateral agreements? Trump and his advisers have frequently mentioned longstanding trade issues such as currency manipulation and...
...Trump has talked a lot about “renegotiating” existing deals such as NAFTA, or withdrawing from them if their terms cannot be changed...
...there is a great deal of uncertainty as to how Trump will proceed...
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Trade Reform
Free trade is good as long as it is fair trade. American workers are the best in the world. On a level playing field, we can compete, and win. Yet, too many American jobs have been lost over the last decade because of trade deals that do not put Americans first. Factories have closed and jobs have moved overseas because the government has imposed crushing regulations and taxes, while it negotiated trade deals that incentivized American companies to make things abroad, where environmental and labor protections are minimal and wages are low.
The Trump Administration will reverse decades of policies that have pushed jobs out of our country. The new Administration will make it more desirable for companies to stay, create jobs here, pay taxes here, and rebuild our economy. Our workers and the communities that support them will thrive again, as more and more companies compete to set up manufacturing in the U.S., to hire our young people and give them hope and a real shot at prosperity again. America will become, once more, a destination for jobs, production and innovation and will once more show economic leadership in the world.
There's no talk of "withdrawing from, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)" and the dems have already taken the TPP off the table. I honestly don't see a problem here, am I missing something?
How are things over at the National Review?
Are they on their second semi tanker truck full of butthurt lotion yet?
Anyone see anything I should worry about?
Nat review was against President Trump.
I meant Gnat review.
ObamaCare is off the table; TTP is off the table; and I bet NAFTA is going to be finished...
The Pipeline will be done, and a million other things will be going on at the same time...he builds a lot of things at the same time, so he's not going to be doing just one thing at a time...
Trump has said what he wants to do, give the man time to put a team together and get into office then criticize if it’s warranted. This just seems like an advance hit piece by the NR which may not even still be in business by the time a fair evaluation can be made.
Given the progress he’s made in three days, there’s no need for him to move to DC and into the White House. ;-)
Ed
If, as the author suggests, there is much uncertainty about Trump’s trade stances, then why is he wasting so many electrons and bandwidth writing about something about which he knows nothing?
More NeverTrump posturing and self-positioning, perhaps?
What you may be missing is NR trying to undermine Trump before he even takes office.
The NeverTrumpers will keep this up to prove themselves right, no matter how wrong they were.
If they don’t want to get bombed to kingdom come, I would imagine they will, especially after what Trump and Putin have planned for ISIS...it’s going to be a big warning of ‘Don’t mess with the U.S.A’....
(wonder if there will be a MSM lying, stealing, cheating article come out on this now)???
National Review: I care not one speck of sawdust what they say about anything any more, AND I will no longer increment their hit count with my clicks.
“Anyone see anything I should worry about?”
I refuse to increment their click count.
It all comes down to this:
Globalization is okay, providing we’re [USA] the ones defining the globalization.
National Review back to their Globalist ways
National Review
Let the wringing of hands begin!
Me oh my...
I hope the concern is not for us, cause we're gonna be just fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnneeeeeeeeeeee
#stillpartying
“Nat review was against President Trump.”
Yes they were. I’ve noticed a stream of ‘news’ from establishment catamites and Cruzlim mushrooms that Trump is selling us out, and insincere.
Just a few months ago their hysteria was because he was sincere.
Just more lies from the children of the father of lies.
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