[conservativejoy]

There is a clause in the 2015 version of TPA that reinforces the sovereignty of our laws which cannot be undermined by anything in trade agreements. There is also the clause on immigration written by Cruz and Sessions.

[9YearLurker]

I thought that clause only said that the trade partners could not force news laws on us—but they could still not allow us to make changes to our current laws. E.g., further restrict work permits.

But no matter, the TPP is a giveaway of new laws, such as permitting foreign companies to freely transfer employees in and out of the US.

An example of how these deals hamstring the US is how an international tribunal has determined that we can’t label the country of origin of meat—because that disadvantages Mexican meat sales in the US.

Sessions is scathingly against TPA, as he just detailed again yesterday:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/17/jeff-sessions-on-obamatrades-new-pacific-union-like-the-eu-something-america-has-never-seen-before/

[philman_36]

There is a clause in the 2015 version of TPA that reinforces the sovereignty of our laws which cannot be undermined by anything in trade agreements.

This is what the bill says on sovereignty...

H.R.1314 - Trade Act of 2015

SEC. 108. Sovereignty.

(a) United States law To prevail in event of conflict.—No provision of any trade agreement entered into under section 103(b), nor the application of any such provision to any person or circumstance, that is inconsistent with any law of the United States, any State of the United States, or any locality of the United States shall have effect.
(b) Amendments or modifications of United States law.—No provision of any trade agreement entered into under section 103(b) shall prevent the United States, any State of the United States, or any locality of the United States from amending or modifying any law of the United States, that State, or that locality (as the case may be).
(c) Dispute settlement reports.—Reports, including findings and recommendations, issued by dispute settlement panels convened pursuant to any trade agreement entered into under section 103(b) shall have no binding effect on the law of the United States, the Government of the United States, or the law or government of any State or locality of the United States.

Any comment?