<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><i class="">"Opponents of multilateral trade agreements, convinced that they have unduly harmed American workers, have enjoyed a stunning success that may signal a long-term political and policy realignment in both parties.” </i>People on this list have done incredible work over the years and decades to get us to this point. Thank you. We need to see the TPP campaigning through this summer and fall to be victorious, though. Assuming we can, we’ll then have new opportunities to start promoting a positive vision for trade again. <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/us/politics/in-time-of-discord-bashing-trade-pacts-appeals-to-both-parties.html?_r=0" style="color: purple;" class="">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/us/politics/in-time-of-discord-bashing-trade-pacts-appeals-to-both-parties.html?_r=0</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 7.5pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: white;"><b class=""><i class=""><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: Georgia, serif;" class="">In Time of Discord, Bashing Trade Pacts Appeals to Both Parties<o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="byline-dateline" style="margin-right: 33.75pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 2.25pt; line-height: 12.75pt; background-color: white;"><span class="byline"><b class=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">By</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b class=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""> </span></b></span><span class="byline"><b class=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/jennifer_steinhauer/index.html" title="More Articles by JENNIFER STEINHAUER" style="color: purple;" class=""><span class="byline-author"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" class="">JENNIFER STEINHAUER</span></span></a> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">JULY 29, 2016<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="byline-dateline" style="margin-right: 33.75pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 2.25pt; line-height: 12.75pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""> </span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">WASHINGTON — Democrats and Republicans agreed on almost nothing at their conventions this month, except this: free trade, just a decade ago the bedrock of the economic agendas of both parties, is now a political pariah.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Protesters, many of whom supported Senator Bernie Sanders, swarmed into Philadelphia this week and heckled speakers, even President Obama, over the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/business/international/the-trans-pacific-partnership-trade-accord-explained.html" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);" class="">Trans-Pacific Partnership</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>trade deal that was finalized this year. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, who has tried to help Mr. Obama achieve this signature trade pact,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/kaine-comes-out-against-trans-pacific-partnership-deal-226064" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);" class="">renounced his support</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>for the deal last week when he<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/us/politics/tim-kaine-hillary-clinton-vice-president.html" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);" class="">joined Hillary Clinton’s ticket</span></a>.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Donald J. Trump has made unraveling the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the largest regional trade accord in history, the centerpiece of his campaign, upending more than half a century of Republican orthodoxy.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">The fragile pro-trade coalition on Capitol Hill once led by Republicans is also unspooling, and congressional approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would include 12 countries that together account for roughly 40 percent of the global economy, seems increasingly unlikely during the Obama presidency. Republican leaders in both chambers are not planning to bring it up this year.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Opponents of multilateral trade agreements, convinced that they have unduly harmed American workers, have enjoyed a stunning success that may signal a long-term political and policy realignment in both parties.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" id="story-continues-1" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Republicans, proponents of free trade for decades, have found their base this year expanding to include anti-trade voters from poor and working-class areas who have joined forces, if not voting habits, with the Democrats’ most liberal voters.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">“The primaries created seismic changes,” said Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York. “It will never be the same again. Neither Republicans nor Democrats will ever again be unabashed advocates for trade.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Candidates often turn against free trade only to embrace it as president, as Mr. Obama notably did. Mrs. Clinton also changed her position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership during the campaign after championing it as secretary of state. Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/27/politics/hillary-clinton-trans-pacific-partnership-terry-mcauliffe/" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);" class="">suggested</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>this week that Mrs. Clinton would reverse as Mr. Obama did if elected,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/terry-mcauliffe-reverses-course-clinton-will-always-oppose-tpp-n618051" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);" class="">only to be strongly batted down</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>by campaign officials.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Mr. Trump’s criticism of the trade pact is far more frontal. In addition to tearing up the deal, he has said he would slap a 45 percent tax on imports from China.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">He believes he can attract liberal voters with this pitch, which<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/752911479251296258" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);" class="">he</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145); text-decoration: none;" class=""> </span></span></a><a href="https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/752911479251296258" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);" class="">posted on Twitter</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>this month, “To all the Bernie voters who want to stop bad trade deals & global special interests, we welcome you with open arms.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">In some ways, Mr. Trump is pulling Republicans back to their<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/p/protectionism_trade/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about protectionism." style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);" class="">protectionist</span></a>prewar roots. They were the party of the ultimately disastrous Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, which raised tariffs on imports, a position that was later reversed.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Democrats, with their deep ties to organized labor, have soured on trade deals in recent decades, especially in the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which was negotiated by the Clinton administration. They say the deals have cost manufacturing jobs and lowered wages, though global trade accounts for fewer lost jobs than automation and other technological advances. (The apparel and furniture sectors, which employed many of the workers now backing Mr. Trump, are exceptions.)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">In surveys, most Americans typically say free trade on the whole<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/190427/american-public-opinion-foreign-trade.aspx" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);" class="">is positive</span></a>, a fact often cited by its supporters. But polls also show that people are less optimistic about trade’s effect on jobs at home. Americans are more likely to say that international trade<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.people-press.org/2015/05/27/free-trade-agreements-seen-as-good-for-u-s-but-concerns-persist/" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);" class="">diminishes wages</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>more than it improves them, and that it results in jobs losses.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" id="story-continues-4" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">The anti-trade talk “resonates with people who have been on the short end of the stick,” said Jeffrey J. Schott, a trade expert at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">“There are a wide range of reasons why this segment of the population has been left behind,” he added. “Both the attacks on trade and on Mrs. Clinton are a surrogate for concerns about globalization.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">The shift was visible among Republicans early this year when the embattled incumbent Senator Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio and a former United States trade representative in the second Bush administration,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/02/04/portman-to-vote-no-on-trade-deal" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);" class="">came out against</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Other Republicans have since remained quiet, or also pulled back. Mr. Portman, who is in a tough re-election fight against Ted Strickland, the former Ohio governor, recently received the endorsement of the Ohio Conference of Teamsters.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">These are positions that worry the administration greatly. “Globalization is a force, and trade agreements are how we shape globalization,” said Michael B. Froman, the United States trade representative who has been criticized on Capitol Hill all year from members of both parties. “There is a lot of rhetoric in the campaign that reflects real anger and concerns about changes in our economy, but the right prescription is not to get out of trade agreements.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Representative Kevin Brady, Republican of Texas and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said “the White House is making progress, but it needs to pick up the pace and pick it up significantly.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">He added, “Congress has the final say on whether trade is good for our country and workers, and there are outstanding issues that have eroded that support.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Mr. Sanders and Mr. Trump have relentlessly bashed the Trans-Pacific Partnership and multilateral trade deals throughout the campaign, pushing Mrs. Clinton toward Mr. Sanders’s position and leaving Republicans largely scared into silence, or equivocating.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">“It’s been a one-sided conversation in this race, which is unfortunate,” said Representative Ron Kind, Democrat of Wisconsin, who is a rare member of his party in the House who supports the Trans-Pacific Partnership.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" id="story-continues-5" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Trade supporters are trying to counter the anti-trade crowd with local advertisements, posts on Twitter,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/linebarger-bertsche-tpp-good-american-manufacturers-article-1.2695998" style="color: purple;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(50, 104, 145);" class="">op-ed articles</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and town-hall-style meetings. “The current rhetoric about trade is in members’ minds,” Mr. Froman said, “but we are working hard to push back against misinformation that is out there.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">The White House is trying to allay concerns in Congress about when and how member countries will change their laws to adjust to the agreement and how the data of financial companies will be treated.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">A fight over how intellectual property protections are managed for the biopharmaceutical industry has been sticky, and the topic has been the subject of discussions between the administration and Republicans in Congress.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Still, there is deep resistance to voting on the trade measure. “The chances are pretty slim that we’d be looking at that this year,” said Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader. House leaders are equally indifferent.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Mrs. Clinton has expressed strong reservations to aspects of the deal, and it is not clear what she would do to move a trade pact forward as president. Even less is known about what Mr. Trump’s approach might be, other than his assertions that his deal-making prowess would achieve accords that are better for workers.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="story-body-text" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 56.25pt; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; line-height: 1.625rem; max-width: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Even so, the long-term impacts on both parties seem inevitable. “We are not going back to business as usual,” Mr. Schott said. “If Mrs. Clinton wins, I think there are feasible ways for her to fix what is broken and make it better. If Mr. Trump wins, he wants to just break the china, and once he does that, you won’t be able to put the pieces together again.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><br class=""></span></div></body></html>