Have You Heard of the TPP Yet? An Important Trade Agreement You Need to Know About by Celeste Drake « carapace

Have You Heard of the TPP Yet? An Important Trade Agreement You Need to Know About by Celeste Drake

Mar 11, 2013

Photo courtesy of the Global Trade Watch. Rally in Leesburg, Va.

The U.S. government is currently working with 10 other countries to negotiate the biggest trade and investment agreement (also known as a “free trade agreement” or FTA) in history. It is called the TPP, or Trans-Pacific Partnership. Not only will it be bigger than NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement)—it’s actually NAFTA plus eight other countries.