Both Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton have said they would not support the agreement, which has drawn the furor of blue-collar workers and activists in both parties.
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A coalition of environmental, labor, health, consumer advocacy and rights organization have combined to fight implementation of the 12-nation deal, which has been introduced in Congress but not ratified.
“If you care about preventing abuse of workers, child labor, wildlife trafficking, overfishing, the decimation of forests – all of those things are addressed in this agreement”, Obama said.
Obama also pitched the deal but did not stay neutral on the election.
Stephen Yates, chairman of the Idaho Republican Party and a member of the 2016 GOP Platform Committee, told Xinhua that “significant trade agreements” in the platform refers to all agreements that would include the TPP. “We need change now”, Trump said.
A handful of activists gathered outside the La Jolla offices of Representative Scott Peters on Monday morning (August 1), flying a 25-foot inflatable blimp and demonstrating their disapproval of Peters’s stance in support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a controversial trade bill Peters and others in Congress voted to give “fast-track” negotiation status past year.
The lawmakers said a “lame duck” Congress should not be voting on such a deal before a new session starts in January. We hope, too, that Mr. Obama was right when he remarked that “after the election is over and the dust settles, there will be more attention to the actual facts behind the deal and it won’t just be a political symbol or a political football”.
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“We’ve got a pretty good record of getting stuff done when I think it is important”, he said. Lee of Singapore to explain those high stakes. “Not just emotionally, but really damaged for a long time to come”, he noted.
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The TPP deal involves Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam. “Foreign countries continue to engage in illegal trade practices that cost the United States millions of jobs”.
