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From NZ City:x The recently revived Trans-Pacific Partnership hasn’t won over everyone as Wellington union members and activists get set to protest the trade agreement. The Wellington branches ...

https://longshoreshippingnews.com/2018/02/new-zealand-unions-protest-new-tpp-trade-pact-now-known-as-cptpp/

Western Producer The United States is likely to lose lucrative market share of wheat in Japan, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is warning the American agriculture industry. The reason: other n...

https://longshoreshippingnews.com/2018/01/revived-tpp-threatens-u-s-wheat-sales/

From Reuters: The United States on Tuesday unveiled draft text on labor standards during the negotiations on modernizing the North American Free Trade Agreement as top officials from Canada, the ...

https://longshoreshippingnews.com/2017/09/labor-advocates-from-us-and-canada-say-trumps-nafta-proposal-fails-to-protect-workers/

From the Phoenix Business Journal: U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has introduced legislation to undo a ‘Buy American’ law that dates back to 1920. McCain wants Congress to repeal the decades...

https://longshoreshippingnews.com/2017/07/mccain-wants-to-get-rid-of-buy-american-law/

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Monday after the White House said President Donald Trump would withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership: “I ...

https://longshoreshippingnews.com/2017/01/sanders-after-killing-tpp-trump-should-shut-down-his-own-sweatshops/

From The Globe and Mail: When Japan recently rushed to become the first country to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership, it did so in part to pressure fence-sitters such as Canada to fall in line...

https://longshoreshippingnews.com/2016/12/why-japan-is-hell-bent-on-saving-the-trans-pacific-partnership/

The Senate’s soon-to-be top Democrat told labor leaders Thursday that the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the trade deal at the center of President Obama’s “pivot” to strengthen ties with key ...

https://longshoreshippingnews.com/2016/11/the-trans-pacific-partnership-is-dead-schumer-tells-labor-leaders/

The following message from International President Robert McEllrath is published in this month’s Dispatcher: You may have heard that I don’t have much patience for politicians, especially one...

https://longshoreshippingnews.com/2016/10/ilwu-international-president-mcellrath-why-we-cant-vote-trump/

From the International Business Times: Chances have all but vanished for passage of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact despite a huge last-ditch effort by US President B...

https://longshoreshippingnews.com/2016/08/controversial-trans-pacific-partnership-trade-pact-stalling-despite-obama-push-working-class-americans-fear-more-loss-of-jobs-overseas/

From Telesur TV: Colombia has failed to enforce worker protections in a free trade agreement with the United States, U.S. and Colombian labor unions said on Monday. In a complaint issued by the A...

https://longshoreshippingnews.com/2016/05/violence-against-trade-unionists-remains-rampant-in-colombia/

One hundred sixty-one food, farm, faith and rural organizations have sent a letter to Capitol Hill urging lawmakers to reject The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact. “The main beneficiaries o...

https://longshoreshippingnews.com/2016/04/farm-ranch-groups-ask-congress-to-reject-trans-pacific-partnership/

From CBC News: Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz says the Trans-Pacific Partnership may well be the worst trade agreement ever negotiated, and he recommends Canada insist on reworking...

https://longshoreshippingnews.com/2016/04/tpp-worst-trade-deal-ever-says-nobel-winning-economist-joseph-stiglitz/

From Crop Protection News Reports: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is trying to gain support on Capitol Hill for its Trans-Pacific Partnership by telling partners on about the benefits it anti...

https://longshoreshippingnews.com/2016/03/national-farmers-union-head-skeptical-of-trans-pacific-partnership/

From the Los Angeles Times: Representatives of the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim nations on Thursday formally signed a sweeping free-trade agreement reached last fall, setting in motion ...

https://longshoreshippingnews.com/2016/02/signing-of-trans-pacific-partnership-trade-deal-opens-up-tough-battle-in-u-s/

Commenting on today’s TPPA trade agreement signing in New Zealand, ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation) president Paddy Crumlin said: “We, like our fellow global unions and eve...

https://longshoreshippingnews.com/2016/02/itf-comment-on-todays-tppa-signing-in-new-zealand/