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Controversial trade deal draws heavy lobbying from U.S. agribusiness
A new trade deal aimed at cutting thousands of taxes and opening markets with 11 Pacific Rim nations has drawn heavy lobbying from some of America’s largest agribusinesses. The deal – known as the...
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Trade agreement creates corporate dispute system, GMO working group
If approved, the Trans-Pacific Partnership will create a multinational working group on biotechnology regulation and establish a new system to resolve disputes between governments and foreign...
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Trans-Pacific Partnership seeks to bring trade stability to major markets
Since 2010, the U.S. has exported more than $165 billion worth of staple U.S. agricultural products to 11 countries now part of a controversial pending trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific...
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Opinion: Proposed trade deal a ‘political football’
In trade circles, it is simply known as the TPP — that's Trans-Pacific Partnership. And it is the largest free trade deal in terms of gross domestic product that the United States has negotiated since...
View ArticleTaiwan looks to join giant trade deal
Another major market has made clear its interest in joining the giant trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which already includes 12 countries and 40 percent of the world’s production....
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Opinion: 2015’s big impact on agriculture
Dave Dickey Last year was an important year for agricultural stories, from the slump in the U.S. farm economy because of plunging commodity prices to the outbreak of avian influenza and Congress...
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Trump’s pull-out of TPP deal prompts criticism, anger from ag industry
Photo by Darrell Hoemann/Midwest Center for Investigative ReportingCows are lined up to eat hay at a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign farm facility on Nov. 5, 2015. Under current trade...
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