Ta-Ta, TPP! No Longer The Place To Be!

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English - February 22, 2017 16:13 - 36 minutes - 1 Byte - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
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On January 23rd 2017, on his first day on the job, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order pulling the USA out of the TPP. That was the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation free trade block that former President Obama had worked to get passed for years. In this podcast, the Professor outlines the TPP-tanking process, who liked it and who hated it, the potential impacts to major world players, and ideological free-trade fallout due to this now-defunct deal. TPP party on!

Keywords: TPP, free trade, USA, Trump, Pacific, China, ISDS, RCEP, Asia, Japan