Simon Lester

From a press conference today: Q    Thank you, Mr. President.  You're here today touting the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but Hillary Clinton is against it.  Her vice presidential nominee, Tim Kaine, has now reversed himself and is now against it.  Donald Trump is, too, meaning that the next President

Political scientists Todd Allee and Andrew Lugg have a new article showing that the TPP is textually more like U.S. FTAs than it is like the FTAs of other TPP parties: We evaluate the TPP in a new way by systematically comparing the recently-released text of the TPP

Democratic VP nominee Tim Kaine was interviewed on CNN about his position on the TPP: Kaine also denied he had changed his stance on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, insisting that he has not "shifted my position on that."Kaine voted to grant President Barack Obama fast-track authority

I've mentioned this before, but I'm still baffled. This is from GOP VP nominee Mike Pence: “With the TPP, it feels a little bit like Obamacare, you remember when Nancy Pelosi said, ‘we gotta pass this bill so we can find out what’s in it,

This is from Politico: Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, longtime best friend to the Clintons, said Tuesday that he believes Hillary Clinton will support the TPP trade deal if elected president, with some tweaks. “I worry that if we don’t do TPP, at some point China’s going to break

The FT explains how complicated this is: Membership of the EU’s customs union — that is, having a common external tariff applied to imports from the rest of the world — is a separate issue to membership of its single market. Norway, for example, is a member of the single market

These Brexit questions are from Federico Ortino: 1) Assume 10 large WTO Members had formed an FTA in 1980, which provides 0 tariff for all industrial products traded within the FTA. Negotiations in the Uruguay round were done taking in to account such FTA. Say, a non-FTA WTO Member

As you can see from some of my recent posts, it's very difficult to get inside Donald Trump's head on trade. He says things, and it seems he can't possibly mean them because they are so outlandish, but maybe he does, and who knows

This is from an interview with Chuck Todd of NBC: CHUCK TODD: You bring that up, I want to get into the meat of the speech. And I was going to do this later, but you just brought up the plants. You said there would be consequences for any company

From the draft transcript of his speech tonight: I have a different vision for our workers. It begins with a new, fair trade policy that protects our jobs and stands up to countries that cheat. It’s been a signature message of my campaign from day one, and it will