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""Omitting currency rules from the TPP benefits Wall Street, making
the TPP a tool for off-shoring jobs, not for job creation," he (Trumka) wrote.
"If Congress is waiting for more evidence that TPP is a bad deal, this
is it.""...
3/3/16, "Ohio lost 112,500 jobs due to trade with TPP countries (graphic): EPI," Cleveland Plain Dealer, Olivera Perkins
That places Ohio sixth, in terms of the percentage of jobs lost to
trade with TPP countries, among the 50 states and the District of
Columbia ranked in the report released Thursday by the liberal
Washington, D.C.-based think tank. The lost jobs represent nearly 2.2
percent of employment in Ohio, according to the analysis....
The TPP is a free trade agreement between the United States and 11
partnership countries, including Canada, Mexico, Japan, Singapore and
Malaysia. While the countries have reached final agreement on the trade
accord, it probably will not go into effect for several months. The
agreement must clear several hurdles, including final ratification by
Congress....
" is one of the key driving forces behind the
high and rapidly rising U.S. trade deficit with the 11 other members of
the TPP," states the report, co-authored by Elizabeth Glass,
an EPI trade and manufacturing policy research assistant.
"In 2015, the
U.S. deficit with TPP countries translated into 2 million U.S. jobs lost, more than half (1.1 million) of which were in manufacturing."
The report says that the TPP should include "a set of restrictions
and/or enforceable penalties against member countries that engage in
currency manipulation."
"Without such provisions against currency manipulation, the TPP could
well follow other trade agreements and leave even greater U.S. trade
deficits in its wake," the report states.
Such concerns about currency manipulation are unfounded, according the USTR website.
"We have worked with macroeconomic authorities of TPP countries to
secure a joint declaration that recognize our mutual interest in
addressing unfair currency practices," it states.
Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, said that is not enough.
"EPI's new report quantifies what a mistake it was to leave currency
rules out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership," he wrote in a news release.
"The trade deficit with TPP countries-attributable in large part to
misaligned currency-cost America's working families 2 million jobs in 2015, more than half in manufacturing."
"Omitting currency rules from the TPP benefits Wall Street, making
the TPP a tool for off-shoring jobs, not for job creation," he wrote.
"If Congress is waiting for more evidence that TPP is a bad deal, this
is it.""...
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From Economic Policy Institute report:
3/3/16, "Trans-Pacific Partnership, currency manipulation, trade, and jobs"
"U.S. trade deficit with the TPP countries cost 2 million jobs in 2015, with job losses in every state," Economic Policy Institute, by Robert E. Scott and Elizabeth Glass
Currency manipulation occurs when a country artificially depresses
the value of its currency. Currency manipulation acts like a subsidy to
the exports of the manipulating country, and a tax on U.S. exports to
every country where U.S. exports compete with the currency manipulator’s
exports. In this way, currency manipulation increases U.S. imports,
suppresses U.S. exports, and inflates U.S. trade deficits. As past EPI
research has shown, currency-manipulation-fueled trade deficits have
reduced U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), eliminated millions of U.S.
jobs, driven down U.S. wages, and propelled the outsourcing of U.S. jobs
to currency manipulators.
Many members of the proposed TPP, including Malaysia, Singapore, and Japan, are known currency manipulators. Others, namely Vietnam, appear to be following the lead of currency manipulators by, for example,
acquiring excess foreign exchange reserves to depress the value of their
currency. Currency manipulation explains a substantial share of the
large, persistent U.S. trade deficit with the 11 other TPP countries
that has not only cost millions of U.S. jobs but also increased income
inequality and put downward pressure on American wages. We can’t afford a
trade agreement that not only allows but would intensify these harmful
trends:"...
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Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Ohio lost 112,500 jobs in 2015 due to bad US trade deals, currency manipulation cited as major cause. AFL-CIO pres. Richard Trumka: Currency manipulation cost 2 million American jobs in 2015, many in manufacturing. Omitting currency rules from international trade deal TPP was a mistake-Cleveland Plain Dealer
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