Trump leads assault on GOP trade policy

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Washington Examiner:

Donald Trump took a decades-long Republican consensus in favor of free trade and discarded it like the garbage that formed the backdrop of his economic address Tuesday.

 

That's one takeaway from Trump's big jobs and trade speech in western Pennsylvania. The presumptive Republican nominee went hard after Bill and Hillary Clinton without throwing fiscal conservatives who believe free trade is part of free markets, economic freedom and limited government a single bone.

 

At one point, Trump even quoted Clinton's Democratic primary opponent, socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, as saying the former secretary of state "Voted for virtually every trade agreement that has cost the workers of this country millions of jobs."

 

Sanders is no small-government guy. But he has gotten Clinton to reverse herself for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, at least as currently constructed, and move away from her husband's default support from free trade.

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Trump takes aim at Chamber of Commerce

 

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump took aim at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Wednesday morning over trade a day after his speech on the issue in Western Pennsylvania.

 

In a pair of tweets, Trump wondered openly why the Chamber of Commerce would be upset with him wanting to make better trade deals with other nations, adding that the group needs to "fight harder for the American worker."

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-takes-aim-at-chamber-of-commerce/article/2595191

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Trump vows to cancel Asia trade deal as president — and puts NAFTA on notice

 

Donald Trump vowed Tuesday that if elected president he would cancel a pending trade deal with Pacific Rim countries and demand Mexico and Canada accept sweeping changes to NAFTA — or else he will nix that one, too.

It was part of an anti-globalization agenda that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee offered to revitalize U.S. manufacturing and bring back jobs, as he upended the free trade consensus that has dominated American policy under Republican and Democratic presidents. In a Tuesday evening speech in Ohio, he even called an impending free trade deal a “rape” of the U.S.

Speaking in Pennsylvania, where he hopes his populist economic message resonates, the billionaire businessman said globalization had failed American workers. He pinned many of the country’s woes on deals struck by President Bill Clinton, whose wife, Hillary Clinton, is the likely Democratic nominee.

“This is not some natural disaster. It is politician-made disaster,” Mr. Trump said of a decline in manufacturing over decades. “It is the consequence of a leadership class that worships globalism over Americanism.”

 

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/28/donald-trump-vows-to-cancel-trans-pacific-partners/