TY - CHAP
T1 - The United States’ Path to Concluding the Trans-Pacific Partnership
T2 - Will TPA + TAA = TPP?
AU - Lewis, Meredith Kolsky
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The political economy of international trade decision-making within the United States is ever-changing and complex. The recent debates over the merits of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP,) and the associated efforts of the Obama Administration to obtain Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), highlight these complexities. This short article is an attempt to clarify the political economy dynamics in the United States with respect to the TPP. It first explains what Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) is and why President Obama needed to have TPA as a precursor to concluding the TPP negotiations. Second, it discusses some of the internal political dynamics impacting support for, or opposition to, the TPP, as well as the Administration’s previous failures to obtain TPA for the TPP negotiations. Third, the piece addresses Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) and its interplay with TPA. The article concludes with an assessment of the ramifications for the TPP of the House and Senate having passed both the TPA and TAA bills.
AB - The political economy of international trade decision-making within the United States is ever-changing and complex. The recent debates over the merits of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP,) and the associated efforts of the Obama Administration to obtain Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), highlight these complexities. This short article is an attempt to clarify the political economy dynamics in the United States with respect to the TPP. It first explains what Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) is and why President Obama needed to have TPA as a precursor to concluding the TPP negotiations. Second, it discusses some of the internal political dynamics impacting support for, or opposition to, the TPP, as well as the Administration’s previous failures to obtain TPA for the TPP negotiations. Third, the piece addresses Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) and its interplay with TPA. The article concludes with an assessment of the ramifications for the TPP of the House and Senate having passed both the TPA and TAA bills.
KW - Free Trade Agreement
KW - Intellectual Property Protection
KW - Senate Vote
KW - Trade Agreement
KW - Trafficking Victim
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85131010506
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-29215-1_20
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-29215-1_20
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85131010506
T3 - European Yearbook of International Economic Law
SP - 495
EP - 505
BT - European Yearbook of International Economic Law
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
ER -