Judging the debate: a point by point analysis

[sethnintendo]

Slimebeast said:

sethnintendo said:

Trans Pacific Partnership...  It is a free trade agreement that is stalled in Congress due to election year and the negativity around it.  Bernie raised hell about it during the Democratic Primary.  It is similar to NAFTA but for an agreement with several Asian countries and the USA.

Thank you. But it was unnecessary to use that shortage.

The UN or UN I can understand. Everyonew knows what the UN, EU or the USA is.

But TPP? Como'n.

Thankfully I have heard about NAFTA lol. Would China be part of the TPP?

Just realized I used NAFTA in that sentence.  Glad you heard of that trade agreement.  Right now free trade is being stalled in USA due to protectionism.  I'm not really that supportive of free trade agreements myself but understand their needs to some type of agreement instead of trade wars/tariffs.  Some things should be tariffed though like Chinese steel that they have been shitting on the market for the past couple of years.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/18/news/us-steel-china-trade/

http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-steel-tariffs-create-a-double-edged-sword-1464740256

Second article argues that because of the tariffs the USA companies were allowed to raise their steel prices on their customers due to the Chinese steel finally being priced so high because of the tariffs.  There are always issues when you get into trade.  There always seems to be trade offs (I know it is a bad joke).