MEXICO CITY (AFP) – Britain’s trade minister Liam Fox met with Mexican counterparts Thursday to lay the foundations for a post-Brexit trade deal, part of a global diplomatic offensive to smooth its departure from the European Union.
President Donald Trump discussed his decision to renegotiate NAFTA, admitting that terminating the trade deal would cause too much economic chaos. “I decided rather than terminating NAFTA, which would be a pretty big, you know, shock to the system, we will
SYDNEY (AFP) – As Britain’s divorce from the European Union begins Wednesday, Australia’s meat industry is licking its lips at the prospect of a boost in exports as London scrambles to sign free-trade deals across the globe.
STRASBOURG (FRANCE) (AFP) – The European Union will not bow to “threats” from Britain that it is prepared to walk away from Brexit talks without a deal, the bloc’s president, Donald Tusk, said Wednesday.
LONDON (AFP) – With Britain on the brink of triggering its EU exit talks, the country and its historic trading partners in the Commonwealth are sizing up an opportunity to boost business.
Hundreds of protesters were outside the EU parliament building in Strasbourg, France, arguing Tuesday that instead of growth and jobs, such a deal will erode the bloc’s environmental, labor and consumer standards.
The European Union (EU) has announced accelerated trade talks with Mexico, in what one MEP slammed as a “provocation” to U.S. President Donald J. Trump.
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The European Union should seek a close trade and defense relationship with Britain after it leaves the bloc, with the scope of any agreement limited only by London’s approach to EU rules on the movement of goods and people, Portugal’s foreign minister says.
Both the former and current European Union (EU) trade boss has admitted a quickly negotiated Canada-style trade deal with the UK is possible, but demand the UK must drop its threat of economic retaliation.
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has claimed members of President Trump’s administration have told him a trade deal between the UK and U.S. after Brexit could be agreed in 90 days.
Following Brexit, the UK will be in the “front seat” for a new trade deal with the U.S. under the Trump administration, senior Republicans have confirmed.
The United States will seek out a trade deal with the United Kingdom as a top priority during the Trump Administration, his head of commerce has revealed. While Billionaire businessman Wilbur Ross Jr., a vocal supporter of the Trump election
LUXEMBOURG (AP) — The European Union’s foreign trade chief acknowledged that member states will likely be unable to back a landmark trade deal with Canada as scheduled on Tuesday but she was optimistic the deal could still be signed next week.
House Freedom Caucus co-founder Rep. John Fleming is calling for the United States to be “among the first” countries to form a trade deal with the United Kingdom following their citizens’ historic vote to leave the European Union.
The European Union (EU) plans to bypass national parliaments to implement controversial “free trade” deals, sources have revealed. A leaked letter to the EU’s trade commissioner reveals the Italian government supports blocking democracy on CETA, the “little sister” of the
Hillary Clinton’s position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal is difficult to follow, if you take her rhetoric seriously. She was a big booster of the deal during her time as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state, memorably calling it the “gold standard” of trade agreements.
The Republican candidate said in a wide-ranging interview with the Washington Post that he’d be able to get rid of the more than $19 trillion debt “over a period of eight years.”
In a major blow to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations currently taking place between the European Union (EU) and America, the German Magistrates Association (DRB) has said that special courts allowing firms to sue countries “had no
The text of the Obama administration’s Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal between the United States and 11 other countries reverses policies that were originally put into place to prevent a foreign takeover of the nation’s infrastructure, argues political consultant Curtis Ellis, who adds that the deal threatens U.S. national security interests.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) released a statement warning against the possibility that a lame-duck session could be used to pass President Obama’s “deeply unpopular 5,554 page Trans-Pacific Partnership.” Sessions wants to eliminate the fast-track authority granted to Obama by Congress earlier this year that is “being used to create this new, binding international union.”
The U.S. Business and Industry Council (USBIC) is launching a print ad series in several media outlets around Capitol Hill to “highlight the lack of enforceable currency provisions in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)” trade deal between the United States and 11 other countries.
As President Barack Obama heads to Paris for a climate-change summit, experts say his pending Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal creates a “vehicle to pass Obama’s climate change treaty.”
The clothing and apparel industry is divided on its support of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, but according to the New York Post, the trade pact doesn’t encourage consumers to purchase American-made clothing and could push fashion design activity overseas.
GOP presidential candidate Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) doubled down on his skepticism towards President Barack Obama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal negotiated by the Obama Administration.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) frequently warns against the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. Now he’s printed out the 5,544 page agreement and placed it on his desk, providing Breitbart News a photo of its size. The 5,544 pages stand
A Democrat Congressman is blasting the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal — which impacts 40 percent of the world economy, consists of 12 countries and was made public on Thursday — saying it includes “exclusions up the wazoo.”
“It’s the highest standard trade agreement in history,” Obama wrote in an introduction to the text he posted on Medium. “I know that past trade agreements haven’t always lived up to the hype. That’s what makes this trade agreement so different, and so important.”
Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim country, plans to join 11 other countries under the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal.
A GE Power and Water factory on the border between Rep. Paul Ryan’s district and Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner’s district in Wisconsin is moving its manufacturing to Canada, costing hundreds of Americans in those districts their jobs.
Paul Ryan was one of the strongest advocates to grant Obama fast-track trade authority under the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA).
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement between the U.S. and 11 other countries contains a chapter on intellectual property rights that could impact freedom of expression, according to The Guardian. This news comes after Breitbart News reported there is a controversial chapter on immigration law within the Trade in Services Act (TiSA), another part of President Obama’s trade pact.
Vietnam appears to be the biggest winner among the 12 countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact, says multiple news reports. “This is really transformational for Vietnam,” IHS Global Insight’s Asia Pacific Chief Economist Rajiv Biswas told ABC News. “They’re going to get a very big advantage over many other exporters of garments into the U.S. market.”
The media normally treats a politician’s dramatic policy shifts as insincere or foolish “flip-flops,” at least when it’s Republicans changing their minds. Let’s see how they handle one of the most blatant flip-flops in recent memory, as presidential candidate Hillary Clinton suddenly denounces the huge Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal that she championed as Secretary of State.
Gov. Mike Huckabee slammed President Barack Obama’s new campaign to win Hill approval for a new Pacific-wide free-trade treaty with 11 countries. “Once again, American workers are getting punched in the gut by Washington because this deal is a handout to insiders, interest groups, Obama’s allies and Asia,” said Huckabee, a GOP presidential candidate and former Arkansas governor, shortly after the president announced the completed deal Oct. 5.
President Obama faces a fight in Congress, and opposition from Democrat and Republican presidential candidates, as he revs up his campaign for congressional approval of the deeply-unpopular Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade deal. The deal was finalized Oct. 5 by trade ministers from
The Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal faces a major hurdle Wednesday when leaders from 12 different countries will reconvene to try to finalize the deal, which has been five years in the making, according to The Financial Times. The
During an interview with 60 Minutes, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump was questioned about the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), calling it a “disaster” and saying America needs “fair trade,” not “free trade.”
The United States Trade Representative (USTR) — responding to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request — is finally revealing the chapter titles of the pending Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, confirming there is a chapter relating to immigration titled, “Temporary Entry for Business Persons.”
“Jeff Sessions has been our hero in Congress on many issues,” Phyllis Schlafly stated in a press release. “I am so very glad that we can honor his work in this way, and make him the first recipient of this award. I hope that there will be many legislators and conservative leaders who will follow Senator Sessions’ example in battling the leftist attacks on our families, our culture, and our sovereignty.”
Donald Trump vows to bring back the millions of American jobs lost to China and other foreign competitors if voters put him in the White House.
