[Dat Mon]

YOU SAID..."Insurance, accounting, investment services are just a few examples that can all be provided from around the world."

I agree....those would be good candidate services for us to provide. Its a shame that there a lots of pages in the agreement limiting and setting conditions on the providing of such services...once again...the language of the agreement can prove me wrong.

The question remains...what are the services those countries provide to us....and what is their comparative advantage and mode of providing them to us?

Hell if all we do is sell sell sell our goods and services to them...I'm in favor of that....as long as we don't pay a nasty price down the road for the privilege of doing so.

Whats in this agreement for them?

[Toddsterpatriot]

The question remains...what are the services those countries provide to us....and what is their comparative advantage and mode of providing them to us?

I'm guessing they mostly sell us goods. Which at this point enter the US mostly tariff free at this point. I'm guessing we'll mostly sell them services. They're better at growing bananas and sugar, we're better at selling insurance, financial services and cell phone service.

Whats in this agreement for them?

They probably think signing this agreement will keep their goods coming here tariff free. This would make it more difficult for a Democratic President (God forbid) to hike tariffs on their exports in the future.