Pros And Cons Of TPP

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Trans Pacific Partnership is a free trade agreement between the United States and its 11 partners. The agreement is based on trade liberalization which will bring economical grow and development. TPP will affect the US economy, leading after that changes in its industrial sectors and employment levels. Moreover, not all consequences after TPP agreement are positive for the United States, or are supported by the author with logical arguments. According to the statement, TPP will not harm employment levels in the States. It will bring advantages, because American work force will move from less to more productive firms and industries. But, lower trade barriers will generate a reshuffling of domestic production away from labor-intensive import- …show more content…

Many corporations will offshore their production in countries where the cost wages are lower. Forcing by that action, many American workers will compete with other foreign low-paid workers and salary’s amount will decrease. TPP will induce a net employment losses and higher inequality because there will be a declining worker purchasing power which would weaken aggregate demand. On the other hand, TPP will allow many corporations to challenge regulations and court rulings before special tribunals is drawing intense opposition 4, because it could restrict corporation’s ability to make a profit. This destroys democracy and local labor laws and environmental safety. Corporations would seek higher short-term profits while undermining efficiency and …show more content…

A new report from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), states that American deficit is going to increase after the full implementation of the contract. Moreover, there will be big losses for US manufacturing, health care, accommodation and food industries, because many member nations will manipulate their currency rates - it means that they will subsides their exported goods and put a tax on imported good from the United States2. As a consequence, a big gap between American export and import will be opened, which creates increasing trade deficits and drive job losses. Furthermore, investments and domestic consumption will decrease, because of a shortage in the net income. The author mentions that the US economy will grow because of dramatical increase in foreign direct investments. But this statement is not supported with any data – nobody knows if the owners of the capital are going to invest or

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