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To: expat_panama
I think the concept of a TPP is fine, and the countries involved are fine. It's just that with the secrets being kept, no one knows what is actually being agreed to. There is no way the Chamber of Cronies wants a proper result like abolition of all tariffs between the partners - they want to manipulate tariff schemes to benefit their own interests and punish their competitors.

The sad thing is, the TPP could be a great example of a real free trade agreement with genuinely free trade between the partners. But we can be certain that isn't what we are going to be getting.

15 posted on 10/06/2015 6:37:13 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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To: Mr. Jeeves
...no one knows what is actually being agreed to...

That's what Enlightened1 was saying up in post 7, but I really don't know y'all are getting this.  The article was crammed w/ mind-numbing specifics and everything we got so far is here.  What we don't know about yet is what doen't exist yet because there's no agreement.  When we do get an agreement we'll read it and then tell congress how to vote on it. If someone's tagged something in that we don't want we can kill it then ---because of what we know is there and not what we're pretending is there. In the mean time what we do see is what we do want so let's go for it..

19 posted on 10/06/2015 7:03:37 AM PDT by expat_panama
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