By
Crista
Huff
In June 2016, I attended a Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting
in a major metropolitan area, because the meeting featured a panel discussion
on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement.
The
three-person panel was made up of a law school professor who has studied
international trade for decades; a Democratic representative of my state’s
AFL-CIO; and a Democratic former-staffer of a prominent former Congressperson.
I was glad to see the AFL-CIO representative, knowing that she’d be anti-TPP;
and was otherwise expecting a pro-TPP bias to the panel.
Imagine
my surprise when both the law professor and the
AFL-CIO representative argued against the TPP, with their opinions encouraging
TPP hostility among most of the meeting’s attendees! I actually felt bad for
the former Congressional staffer on the panel. I can’t say that there was a
single person in the room who vocally concurred with a pro-TPP stance. [more...]
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