Both Republican and Democratic Presidential candidates are opposed to free trade which may not bode well for approval of the Trans Pacific Partnership. National Farmers Union leaders who have also expressed opposition to the deal say they’ll work to make sure Congress doesn’t approve the pact during the lame duck session as well as into the new year when the new President takes office. Barbara Patterson is Government Relations Representative with NFU.
She says their first priority is making sure there’s no passage of the deal in the near term as well as down the road.
Patterson says one of the major reasons their group is against TPP is its failure to address currency manipulation which gives a major leg up on other countries over the U.S. as far as trade goes.
Patterson says the other problem with the TPP as well as other trade deals the U.S. has entered into is they don’t address the large trade deficit the U.S. has gathered from those agreements.
