{"id":146,"date":"2016-04-19T08:41:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T12:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/pennsylvania\/?p=146"},"modified":"2016-04-19T09:21:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T13:21:10","slug":"clinton-and-sanders-get-specific-on-trade-before-the-pa-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizenstrade.org\/ctc\/pennsylvania\/2016\/04\/19\/clinton-and-sanders-get-specific-on-trade-before-the-pa-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton and Sanders Get Specific on Trade Before PA Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 19, 2016
\nContact: Amy Conahan,\u00a0(412) 999-3750 or\u00a0amy@citizenstrade.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Clinton and Sanders Detail Their Cases Against the TPP<\/b><\/h2>\n

Questionnaires on the TPP, Jobs & Trade Published One Week Before the PA Primary<\/b><\/p>\n

Johnstown, Penn. \u2014 Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders expanded on their opposition to the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in detailed questionnaires on trade policy published by the Pennsylvania Fair Trade Coalition (PAFTC) today, one week before the Pennsylvania primary. \u00a0The questionnaires explore their positions on the TPP, the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and other trade policy matters in much greater depth than earlier statements on the subject.<\/span><\/h2>\n

\u201cFor decades now, working Americans have suffered under trade deals that ship good-paying jobs overseas and that drive down wages,\u201d said PAFTC Director Amy Conahan. \u201cIt\u2019s exciting to see trade policy starting to receive the attention it deserves in the presidential race, and we appreciate Secretary Clinton and Senator Sanders detailing their positions for the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Clinton and Sanders explained their opposition to the proposed twelve-nation TPP trade agreement, a pact whose final text was released in November 2015, but has not yet been submitted for a vote in Congress. \u00a0If enacted, the TPP would become the largest U.S. Free Trade Agreement to date.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will say \u2019no\u2019 to new trade agreements unless they create American jobs, raise wages, and improve our national security,\u201d said Clinton. \u00a0\u201cAfter looking at the final terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, including what it contains on currency manipulation and its weak rules of origin standard for what counts as a car that can get treaty benefits, I opposed the agreement because it did not meet my test.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clinton also said that TPP provisions that put \u201cthe interests of drug companies ahead of patients and consumers \u2026 are one of the reasons I opposed it.”<\/p>\n

“I have been strongly opposed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ever since it was first announced, and I will do everything I can to defeat the agreement,\u201d said Sanders. “In my view, the TPP is the continuation of a failed approach to trade that began when President Bill Clinton championed NAFTA; an approach that boosts the profits of large corporations by offshoring jobs while undercutting worker rights, and environmental, health, and financial laws here and abroad.”<\/p>\n

Among the ten questions other questions that both Democratic candidates answered are:<\/p>\n