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Trade pact

Often touted as the centerpiece of the Obama administration’s re-engagement with Asia, a close vote in the US Senate has brought the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)…
Another deadline in the nuclear negotiation between Iran and the Permanent 5 +1 (or EU3 + 3) over the restrictions on the Iranian nuclear energy…
After the Senate joined the House of Representatives in granting President Barack Obama fast-track authority to negotiate trade agreements,National Public Radioaired one report (Morning Edition, 6/25/15)…
Only a few months ago, President Barack Obama was at loggerheads with Republican members of Congress intent on destroying his administration. With bewildering speed, Obama…
The Obama administration this week will continue to wrestle with reluctant congressional Democrats seeking a compromise to advance the president's hoped-for legacy of expanding trading…
"We have an opportunity to set the most progressive trade agreement in our nation's history," it states on BarackObama.com, the website of the president's "Organizing…
The United States and the world are engaged in a great debate about new trade agreements. Such pacts used to be called "free-trade agreements"; in…
It is not often that members of Congress get the opportunity to weigh in on international trade. But negotiations over fast-track authorityfor the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)in recent…
If you need further proof of your democracy’s ill health, the Senate provided plenty of it this week as it began debating whether to fast…
The United States and the world are engaged in a great debate about new trade agreements. Such pacts used to be called “free-trade agreements”; in…
The restrictions the Obama administration has placed on members of Congress wishing to peruse the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a managed trade agreement among…
Secret negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade and investment agreement involving 12 nations of the Pacific Rim, are coming to a close, and…