Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – No to Fast Track
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would off-shore more jobs, flood us with unsafe imported food, expand fracking, hike up medicine prices, roll back Wall Street reforms, threaten Internet freedom and much more. The key to stopping this terrible “free trade” deal is to stop Fast Track.
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No to ‘Fast Track,’ No to Trade Treachery
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HOW THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP WOULD IMPACT BUY AMERICAN/BUY LOCAL
From the workers who manufacture the materials to upgrade America’s bridges and highways, to those who build the cars driven by our government officials, “Buy American” creates U.S. jobs by recycling U.S. tax dollars back into our economy. Buy American policies require that most federal government purchases of goods go to American firms, unless a product is not made here or the U.S. product is much more expensive. Buy American is supported by four out of five U.S. voters – Republicans, Democrats and independents alike.
But Buy American would be gutted, and American jobs lost, under proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership rules requiring “national treatment” in government procurement. To implement this Trans-Pacific Partnership requirement, the United States would agree to waive “Buy American” procurement policies for all firms operating in TPP countries, offshoring our tax dollars to create jobs abroad.
Some corporate TPP proponents argue that these rules would be good for the United States because they would allow U.S. firms to bid on procurement contracts in TPP countries on equal footing. The notion that this is a good trade-off for waiving Buy American preferences on U.S. procurement is ridiculous. The U.S. federal procurement market is larger than the combined national procurement markets of all other Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiating parties. Even more, U.S. firms already have equal procurement access in most TPP countries under existing deals. Counting only TPP countries in which this is not true, the U.S. federal procurement market is more than 14 times the size of the total “new” TPP procurement market. Want to download this content as a PDF? Click here.[p][/p]
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What can you do?
Let your Representative and Senators know that you oppose Congress voting for “Fast Track” Trade Promotion Authority.
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SOURCE: Expose The TPP
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