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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow sure are some corporations that the TPP will pass? This sure:
Foreign investment in Vietnams textile and garment sector is increasing rapidly as international firms seek to take advantage of benefits the country will potentially derive when the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement becomes a reality.
Several companies from Chinese Mainland, Chinas Hong Kong and Taiwan, Japan, US, South Korea have made large investments in the sector since the beginning of this year, according to the local Finance Times newspaper.
The textile and garment industry in the TPP member countries is expected to benefit the most from the trade deal. Specifically, products made from domestically sourced materials or imported from other TPP member countries will enjoy Zero tariff when being exported to signatory countries.
According to the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association, up to 60% of the countrys textile and garment exports go to member countries.
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http://www.livetradingnews.com/foreign-textile-firms-invest-in-vietnam-ahead-of-tpp-enactment-58277.htm#.U7lAmUAnPfY
cali
(114,904 posts)thanks cali
The government of the United States is a corrupt traitorous organization.
Corporations can only do what our government allows them to do.
Free Trade Deals do not benefit U.S. workers, or foreign workers.
Free Trade Deals benefit corporations, banks, Wall Street, the 1%, and corrupt politicians.
I don't think this corrupt mess can ever be untangled.
It sickens me to my very core.
I wish they would all choke on their ill gotten gains !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)stillwaiting
(3,795 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)the other is thrown up so the MIC can implement their agendae without distraction.
ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)what is barreling toward us. Not just TPP but full-blown assaults aided and abetted by those we imagined were trustworthy. As I have said in recent posts, the degree of fascism now controlling us would make Markus Wolf blush.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)antigop
(12,778 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)about.
What? You thought we've been fighting for democracy?!
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)is this not what you were expecting?
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)lark
(23,083 posts)They run it with the able assistance of their paid lackeys in congress and the judicial (ha, what an oxymoron that is) system.
We are not free. Our lives are not our own. How does one plan his/her life when our Corporate Government never tells us what the Hell they are doing next? They have been doing crap behind our backs since the '70s and look at the mess we're in. I don't remember voting for those trade agreements that GHWBush started and Clinton finished back in the early '90s. Now they've done it again.
djean111
(14,255 posts)I would think Hillary would like to have this a done deal before she is called out on it. If, of course, the DNC intends to have debates.
Hating the TPP is not a "pony", it is a fucking team of Budweiser Clydesdales.
Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)antigop
(12,778 posts)antigop
(12,778 posts)Many of us have heard of corporate personhood. Corporations have been given the Constitutional rights of persons by U.S. courts over the past 40 years, including the right to spend money on elections. By corporate nationhood I mean the bestowing of the rights of nations on corporations. The TPP, drafts of which have been leaked to Public Citizen, has 29 chapters, only five of which -- according to Public Citizen's thinking -- deal with trade. The others deal with things like food safety, internet freedom, medicine costs, job off-shoring, and financial regulation. Treaties, according to Article VI of the U.S. Constitution, are -- together with the Constitution itself -- the supreme law of the land. So U.S. laws would have to be made to comply with the TPP's rules.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)they own the government.
senseandsensibility
(16,989 posts)It is really very, very important. In addition, we should be contacting our elected officials.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Can we stop it?
Even if 75% of the people oppose the TPP can we stop it?
I wonder.
cali
(114,904 posts)What I fear is that it will happen in 2015- slipped in between elections.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)that they have the best interest of the nation in mind if they continue to support these trade deals. We now have decades of evidence that trade deals have destroyed domestic manufacturing and driven down our wages.
PuraVidaDreamin
(4,099 posts)Because this will accelerate global climate change too!