Name his accomplishments.
Just a simple google search should give more than ten accomplishments. Apparently, there is a reason why North Korea tests nukes underground.Name his accomplishments.
Haha, I totally called this a long time ago. Basically there are a few minor changes to our existing trade agreement, Trump declares victory, and things carry on as they always have.
What a tremendous waste of time and what a ridiculous reason to alienate one of our closest allies for such tiny changes.
Trump is really crushing it lately. He's getting pro-American trade deals in place, we're going to be less dependent on foreign oil, and we're reestablishing America as the leader of the free world under his leadership. He is likely the best president we've had since JFK.
<insert excessive HAHAHAs here>
I'm really questioning how much though, what exactly does 3.6% market access mean along with the removal of dairy categories? These appear to be the big changes but I'm not familiar enough with the dairy market to understand if this is really a win or just some fiddling around the edges.
God they must be up there with the petroleum, and big ag guys when it comes to pay offs, I, mean campaign contributions.Oh good, just what Canada needs...elements of the US healthcare system:
"The intellectual property chapter includes an extension of the length of time new biologic drugs will be protected from generic drug competition — up two years, from Canada's previously agreed-upon eight years, to 10 years of exclusivity. The U.S. was pushing Canada and Mexico to give 12 years of protection, so it's a compromise. Key congressional voices wanted to see a win for the pharmaceutical industry to help secure their votes."
I'll repeat:Which part of America would that be, those that need help wrt healthcare, those with stagnated wages, Or those with stock portfolios?Reality is I'm 100% right there. America is better today than it was before Trump was elected. FACT (well, opinion technically, but one backed by a mountain of evidence).
Reality is I'm 100% right there. America is better today than it was before Trump was elected. FACT (well, opinion technically, but one backed by a mountain of evidence).
I'll repeat:Which part of America would that be, those that need help wrt healthcare, those with stagnated wages, Or those with stock portfolios?
Interesting how so very many of the people who have worked directly with him think he's lazy, incompetent, and emotionally unstable.
I would say that at least so far GWB was more destructive than Trump but it's pretty clear we've never had someone less capable as our president.
I agree, especially the part of America that just bitch-slapped Justine Trudeau and sent him to bed. That part was delicious.The part of America that is better today than before Trump would be everything between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, plus AK and HI too.
I agree, especially the part of America that just bitch-slapped Justine Trudeau and sent him to bed. That part was delicious.
That bites Americans back as it means Americans buying drugs in the Canadian market as an alternative to the stupidly priced drugs we buy here will have to pay more.Oh good, just what Canada needs...elements of the US healthcare system:
"The intellectual property chapter includes an extension of the length of time new biologic drugs will be protected from generic drug competition — up two years, from Canada's previously agreed-upon eight years, to 10 years of exclusivity. The U.S. was pushing Canada and Mexico to give 12 years of protection, so it's a compromise. Key congressional voices wanted to see a win for the pharmaceutical industry to help secure their votes."
Oh good, just what Canada needs...elements of the US healthcare system:
"The intellectual property chapter includes an extension of the length of time new biologic drugs will be protected from generic drug competition — up two years, from Canada's previously agreed-upon eight years, to 10 years of exclusivity. The U.S. was pushing Canada and Mexico to give 12 years of protection, so it's a compromise. Key congressional voices wanted to see a win for the pharmaceutical industry to help secure their votes."
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Well, that was unnecessarily painful.
After spending a year and a half alienating our friends, punishing our farmers and manufacturers with devastating tariffs and counter-tariffs, and fracturing the hard-won alliance we had built to isolate and pressure China, we finally got a new trade deal — and a “new” trade strategy.
Yet somehow, they look an awful lot like the old ones.
On Sunday evening, news broke that Canada agreed to the terms of a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement. Not merely renegotiated: rebranded! What was once the easily pronounceable “NAFTA” will hereafter be the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or “USMCA.”
Why the name change was needed is a little unclear. Our marketer in chief clearly loves rebranding things, and USMCA, while it doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, does have the virtue of literally putting America first. Oddly, the posted text of the trade pact itself still repeatedly refers to itself as “NAFTA 2018.” I guess someone forgot to search-and-replace.
As to the substance, well, the best you can say is it could have been a whole lot worse. President Trump didn’t, as he threatened, blow up the system.
So, you know, whoop de doo.
There are some new protectionist measures, such as complicated new requirements for auto rules of origin, which could potentially backfire. That is, they may end up being so costly to adhere to that they’ll encourage manufacturers to move more of their operations and jobs outside of North America.
Other stuff, such as a “sunset” provision requiring members to regularly reaffirm their desire to continue the three-party deal, is probably also not an improvement. There are better ways to encourage ongoing modernization of the deal that would involve less policy uncertainty for businesses. But, again, this section is not as bad as many businesses and trade experts feared.
Trump also won some modest concessions in tiny industries he’s weirdly obsessed with, such as Canadian dairy. He has conveniently played down the concessions he made in exchange: In return for greater American access to the Canadian dairy, poultry and egg markets, we gave Canada greater access to U.S. markets for dairy, peanuts, processed peanut products, sugar and sugar-containing products.
But for the most part, despite Trump’s assertion that “it’s not NAFTA redone, it’s a brand-new deal,” the president mostly kept NAFTA intact.
What’s more, some of the more significant changes — relating to issues such as labor standards, environmental protections and e-commerce — appear to be cribbed from another trade deal that Trump has demonized: the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
If you (like me) supported TPP, this is either reassuring or supremely frustrating.
President Barack Obama negotiated TPP — a 12-party pact that included Canada and Mexico — as part of his own promise to “renegotiate NAFTA.” TPP was also Obama’s strategy for keeping China from writing “the rules of the road” on trade. China was deliberately excluded from the pact, which was designed to cement a coalition of countries that had been wounded by China’s misbehavior. Working together, these trade victims hoped to pressure China to reform.
One of Trump’s first orders of business as president, of course, was to pull out of TPP. He soon thereafter picked unnecessary trade fights with TPP countries we’d previously tried to make common cause with.
Now Trump seems to have realized his mistake. Despite how he characterizes his “historic transaction,” the USMCA is mostly just a smooshing together of two trade deals that he derided as the worst trade deals ever made, as Dartmouth Tuck School of Business professor Emily Blanchard points out.
In fact, a bunch of NAFTA 2.0 language appears squarely aimed at returning to Obama’s alliance strategy for isolating China — which, to reiterate, only requires rebuilding because Trump destroyed it.
For instance, the NAFTA-replacement deal includes “protections against misappropriation of trade secrets, including by state-owned enterprises,” one of China’s major trade sins. Likewise, there’s also language designed to disincentivize NAFTA 2.0 signatories from making free-trade deals with “non-market” countries, widely understood to be targeting China. Some have speculated that Trump may press for similar language in negotiations with other countries, such as Japan.
In other words, Trump has wrought a lot of destruction in service of landing us in roughly the same position we would have been in had we simply stayed in TPP and pursued more amicable negotiations with Mexico and Canada on other outstanding issues.
Some of these harms — such as the steel and aluminum tariffs and retaliatory measures that, despite Sunday’s announcement, remain on the books — may yet be reversible. But the damage to our reputation as a reliable trading partner and ally may be irreparable. To Trump, that may be a feature, not a bug."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...90f1daae309_story.html?utm_term=.4b28ad968564
Don't take this the wrong way - but PLEASE stop perceiving this as "basically the same thing"
Essentially, every trade deal (NAFTA, TPP, etc...) are ALL after the same common objective... get as much free trade rules as humanly possible. The rest is just technicalities..
You know, such as Canada that has historically for the last 20 years been trying to protect its dairy industry in the form of preventing global trade on it. You know, that one? That's the FUCKING exact same equivalent of what Trump has been doing with his latest moves (China, Canada, etc...) Attempting to limit competition. That drives up cost from a lack of supply, demand remains the same - thus their citizens are paying excessively more for their milk in an effort for Trudeau to give a hand-job to their dairy farmers. The reality is - they should have been competing with US dairy all along. Fuck Canada and fuck their protectionist measures just like everyone else here is saying fuck Trump for doing the exact same fucking thing that are you are defending. The door swings both ways you incompetent fucking morons.
To put it in the most simplistic way for you to understand...
Don't take this the wrong way - but PLEASE stop perceiving this as "basically the same thing"
Essentially, every trade deal (NAFTA, TPP, etc...) are ALL after the same common objective... get as much free trade rules as humanly possible. The rest is just technicalities..
You know, such as Canada that has historically for the last 20 years been trying to protect its dairy industry in the form of preventing global trade on it. You know, that one? That's the FUCKING exact same equivalent of what Trump has been doing with his latest moves (China, Canada, etc...) Attempting to limit competition. That drives up cost from a lack of supply, demand remains the same - thus their citizens are paying excessively more for their milk in an effort for Trudeau to give a hand-job to their dairy farmers. The reality is - they should have been competing with US dairy all along. Fuck Canada and fuck their protectionist measures just like everyone else here is saying fuck Trump for doing the exact same fucking thing that you are defending. The door swings both ways you incompetent fucking morons.
To put it in the most simplistic way for you to understand...
Exactly. Why should Canada have to deal with oversupply by the US dairy industry?Ah so your dairy industry over produces and someone else has to clean up your bullshit? Drink more milk if you are concerned about dairy farmers. We import more dairy products from the US than you import from us.
Thanks for doing the homework for us."
Well, that was unnecessarily painful.
After spending a year and a half alienating our friends, punishing our farmers and manufacturers with devastating tariffs and counter-tariffs, and fracturing the hard-won alliance we had built to isolate and pressure China, we finally got a new trade deal — and a “new” trade strategy.
Yet somehow, they look an awful lot like the old ones.
On Sunday evening, news broke that Canada agreed to the terms of a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement. Not merely renegotiated: rebranded! What was once the easily pronounceable “NAFTA” will hereafter be the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or “USMCA.”
Why the name change was needed is a little unclear. Our marketer in chief clearly loves rebranding things, and USMCA, while it doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, does have the virtue of literally putting America first. Oddly, the posted text of the trade pact itself still repeatedly refers to itself as “NAFTA 2018.” I guess someone forgot to search-and-replace.
As to the substance, well, the best you can say is it could have been a whole lot worse. President Trump didn’t, as he threatened, blow up the system.
So, you know, whoop de doo.
There are some new protectionist measures, such as complicated new requirements for auto rules of origin, which could potentially backfire. That is, they may end up being so costly to adhere to that they’ll encourage manufacturers to move more of their operations and jobs outside of North America.
Other stuff, such as a “sunset” provision requiring members to regularly reaffirm their desire to continue the three-party deal, is probably also not an improvement. There are better ways to encourage ongoing modernization of the deal that would involve less policy uncertainty for businesses. But, again, this section is not as bad as many businesses and trade experts feared.
Trump also won some modest concessions in tiny industries he’s weirdly obsessed with, such as Canadian dairy. He has conveniently played down the concessions he made in exchange: In return for greater American access to the Canadian dairy, poultry and egg markets, we gave Canada greater access to U.S. markets for dairy, peanuts, processed peanut products, sugar and sugar-containing products.
But for the most part, despite Trump’s assertion that “it’s not NAFTA redone, it’s a brand-new deal,” the president mostly kept NAFTA intact.
What’s more, some of the more significant changes — relating to issues such as labor standards, environmental protections and e-commerce — appear to be cribbed from another trade deal that Trump has demonized: the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
If you (like me) supported TPP, this is either reassuring or supremely frustrating.
President Barack Obama negotiated TPP — a 12-party pact that included Canada and Mexico — as part of his own promise to “renegotiate NAFTA.” TPP was also Obama’s strategy for keeping China from writing “the rules of the road” on trade. China was deliberately excluded from the pact, which was designed to cement a coalition of countries that had been wounded by China’s misbehavior. Working together, these trade victims hoped to pressure China to reform.
One of Trump’s first orders of business as president, of course, was to pull out of TPP. He soon thereafter picked unnecessary trade fights with TPP countries we’d previously tried to make common cause with.
Now Trump seems to have realized his mistake. Despite how he characterizes his “historic transaction,” the USMCA is mostly just a smooshing together of two trade deals that he derided as the worst trade deals ever made, as Dartmouth Tuck School of Business professor Emily Blanchard points out.
In fact, a bunch of NAFTA 2.0 language appears squarely aimed at returning to Obama’s alliance strategy for isolating China — which, to reiterate, only requires rebuilding because Trump destroyed it.
For instance, the NAFTA-replacement deal includes “protections against misappropriation of trade secrets, including by state-owned enterprises,” one of China’s major trade sins. Likewise, there’s also language designed to disincentivize NAFTA 2.0 signatories from making free-trade deals with “non-market” countries, widely understood to be targeting China. Some have speculated that Trump may press for similar language in negotiations with other countries, such as Japan.
In other words, Trump has wrought a lot of destruction in service of landing us in roughly the same position we would have been in had we simply stayed in TPP and pursued more amicable negotiations with Mexico and Canada on other outstanding issues.
Some of these harms — such as the steel and aluminum tariffs and retaliatory measures that, despite Sunday’s announcement, remain on the books — may yet be reversible. But the damage to our reputation as a reliable trading partner and ally may be irreparable. To Trump, that may be a feature, not a bug."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...90f1daae309_story.html?utm_term=.4b28ad968564