Topsy-Turvy Global Trade Politics (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

The President wants a huge new Pacific trade deal, and he wants it fast so it doesn’t get bogged down and derailed. So China doesn’t write the rules. Yesterday, his own party said no. Senate Democrats rebelled without more assurances, protections, guarantees. And now, the fate of the Trans Pacific Partnership – the TPP – is way up in the air. The White House is calling it a “snafu.” Maybe. But it’s also a serious battle over how the world will work. How Americans workers, business and trade will fare. This hour On Point: the red hot politics of Pacific trade. / Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/05/13/tpp-vote-asia-pacific-trade-congress-obama-elizabeth-warren