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  • 2016-09-29 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Hillary Clinton Call the Trans-Pacific Partnership the 'Gold Standard' in Trade Agreements? (en)
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  • Among the various accusations exchanged by the two candidates during the first presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump on 26 September 2016 was Trump's assertion that Clinton lauded the multi-nation trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as the gold standard of such deals: What is the TTP? Sometimes described as a much bigger version of NAFTA (certain provisions are meant to be improvements on those of NAFTA and would supplant parts of it once TPP takes effect), the agreement covers 12 Asian-Pacific nations, including the U.S., Canada, and Mexico (but not China), drops tariffs, raises environmental protection and human rights standards, and is supported by the Obama administration. It has not yet been ratified by the United States. As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton spoke favorably of the agreement-in-progress on several occasions. For example: After leaving the State Department in 2013, however, Clinton's remarks about the TPP became more guarded. Because TPP negotiations are still ongoing, she wrote in her 2014 book, Hard Choices, it makes sense to reserve judgment until we can evaluate the final proposed agreement. By the time of her October 2015 debate with Democratic rival Bernie Sanders, Clinton was foursquare against it: Despite her current opposition to the agreement and her attempts during more than one presidential debate to recast her previous support of it as hopeful, the record shows that Clinton spoke glowingly of the TPP on more than one occasion, not least when she praised it in 2012 as setting the gold standard in trade agreements. (en)
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